Our main one-hour Sunday-night episode!

This first segment of the Sunday show contains a chapter of Varney the Vampire, along with what we think of as the more humourous, melodramatic, and high-campy tidbits from this week’s explorations of early-Victorian street literature — INCLUDING ...

• 02:02: VARNEY THE VAMPYRE; or, THE FEAST OF BLOOD, Chapter 24: Admiral Bell, back from his meeting with Varney, confesses his plot to take the heat off Charles by usurping his role as duellist. Then a note comes from Varney himself, inviting Charles to meet him at midnight in the garden, alone, to talk things over or, if he likes, fight. Charles looks forward to it. He takes leave of Flora — kisses her for the first time — but as he leaves her room, he is oppressed by a foreshadowing sense that he will not see her again for a long, long time, if ever …
• 22:45: BROADSIDE BALLAD: The man who was hanged, who is still alive! This is an early-day form of clickbait, but it gave us a reason to look at failed hangings. Turns out several people, over the years, have survived being hanged.
• 29:35: TERRIFIC REGISTER ARTICLE: The ship was on fire! How to get the baby to safety? This mariner opted to tie the little tyke to the back of a sheep and let him ride the wooly beasty to shore … and it worked!
• 33:00: EARLY VICTORIAN GHOSTLY SHORT STORY, TO-WIT: Carmilla by J.S. Le Fanu, Part 6: Unexpectedly (to Laura) the little doctor arrives at the schloss to examine her. Her father has sent for him without telling her. The doctor hears her story with increasingly evident alarm and horror; inspects her throat — finding a small blue speck on the skin where she recalls the twin-needle pain. The doctor and the father have a long, animated colloquy before he delivers his prescription: She is never to be allowed to be alone. Madame is charged with staying close by her at all times. Then, Laura’s father sets out for Castle Karnstein in the carriage, for a visit and picnic. They leave at noon, before Carmilla wakes up, and Mademoiselle is going to bring her along later. On the way they meet the bereaved General Spielsdorf, he who has dedicated his life to destroying a monster. He also is going to Karnstein … he says, to perform “a pious sacrilege here, which will relieve our earth of certain monsters”...
• 51:27: A SHORT GHOST STORY from the scrapbook of Charles Lindley, Viscount Halifax: An English family rents a gorgeous French house for cheap … then learns why it was so inexpensive! “Madame, monsieur; il y a un revenant ici!”
• 1:06:20: A FEW SQUEAKY-CLEAN DAD JOKES from the early-1800s' most popular joke book: "Joe Miller's Jests; or, The Wit's Vade-mecum."

Join host Corinthian Finn, a.k.a. Finn J.D. John 18th Baron Dunwitch,* for a one-hour-long spree through the scandal-sheets and story papers of old London! A new episode of the show is released every Sunday and Thursday evening at 5:37 p.m. London time.

• * The Barony of Dunwitch is located in a wood west of Arkham (where “the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut; there are dark narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, and where thin brooklets trickle without ever having caught the glint of sunlight.”) Actually it is a good 3,000 miles west of Arkham. It is not to be confused with Dunwich, the English seacoast town that fell house by house into the sea centuries ago, or Dunsany, the home until 1957 of legendary fantasy author Edward J.M.D. Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany.

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