FIVE NEW FLASH-CANT WORDS AND PHRASES —

• "Autem bawler"
• "Cat's meat shop"
• "Bulldogs"
• "Cross-crib"
• "Hoister mots, high tobers, and Moabites"

Plus a chapter each from our five vintage Penny Dreadfuls!

0:04:30: SWEENEY TODD, Ch. 47 —

• Johanna Oakley’s mother is on a rampage, trying to persuade her to consent to marry Pastor Lupin. Luckily, Big Ben the beefeater stops by with some victuals ... and, remember, last time that happened, Mrs. Oakley put some kind of savage purgative in the beer. Is Big Ben plotting some kind of revenge? You shall hear...

0:19:15: BLACK BESS (Dick Turpin) Ch. 9 —

• Highwayman Dick needs to get away from Drury-lane, and take Ellen with him. But the neighborhood is alarmed! Not to worry, he has a plan — with Ellen’s help, he thinks it will be all right. Next week we’ll find out if he’s right!

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0:32:00: VARNEY THE VAMPYRE, Ch. 9—

• We return to Flora, waiting for the men to get back from their midnight visit to the crypt. And she keeps hearing little scratching noises outside the room ... is the vampire coming back for her? Trembling with terror, she shrinks back away from the window, burrowing into the bedclothes for security ... and coming up with a pistol in each hand. Come get some, Vampey!

0:46:30: SPRING-HEEL'D JACK Ch. 9—

• Drunken brute Bill Jackson is at poor Ellen Folder’s door, demanding the rent and threatening to get it by seizing her employer’s property. If he does, she will be ruined — financially and maybe even criminally! The workhouse if she’s lucky, prison if she’s not! Can Spring-Heel’d Jack save her from a fate that really WOULD be worse than death? We shall see.

1:06:15: THE BLACK BAND Ch. 9—

• We meet a new cast of characters — a very old man and his niece and grand-nephew, Antony. He has called them to his bedside to unburden his conscience of a great evil that he says he has done. But he clearly does not trust Antony. What could it be? And is Antony to be trusted with such a secret?

Join Professor Flash, a.k.a. Finn J.D. John. for a 90-minute spree through the story papers of old London! Grab a flicker of blue ruin, unload your stumps, and let's go!