3.19: A vampire named Carmilla. — How "Walter Sydney" escaped a horrible underground doom! — The most ungrateful lover. Plus, a very bad song about a very good man.

Episode 19 of Season Three! — A Sunday-evening full episode!

01:55: THE MYSTERIES OF LONDON (1844). In which —

• We learn the story of “Walter Sydney’s” deliverance from the filthy fate meant for him in the Fleet River, four years before. Along the way, we start getting hints that “Mr. Montague” knows more about the adventure than he would care to disclose … how deeply involved is he with Sir Rupert Harbrough, Diana Arlington, and Richard Markham? He visibly reacts when their names come up. Could this worldly businessman-about-town be the long-lost Eugene Markham himself?

22:49: A CRUEL INFATUATION (Terrific Register article):

• The story of an Irish adventurer who met a lovely girl in Italy; talked her into living with him; then, having murdered her when she turned up pregnant, finished his life as a galley slave.

26:45: CARMILLA, by J.S. Le Fanu (Part 1 of 9):

• IN WHICH: We meet our protagonist, Laura, a lonely little girl growing up in a musty castle deep in an Austrian mountain forest. She tells us of her dream, of a young woman laying down with her and then a sudden pain like a snake bite; but, was it really a dream? Then one day, a strange travelling-coach driving by overturns outside the gate ...

PLUS —

• We explore a "broadside ballad" published in 1843: "Beware of Rows at Notting-hill," by John Morgan, in which young men-about-town are advised to not get in fistfights around Clerkenwell, lest they be fined £15 for being lubberly, and an elegy for Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex written in barely-readable iambic pentameter;

• We learn a few more Victorian "dad jokes" from good old Joe Miller!

Join host Finn J.D. John. for a one-hour-long spree through the scandal-sheets and story papers of old London! Grab a flicker of blue ruin, unload your stumps, and let's go!

EPISODE ART is a scene from Carmilla, showing Carmilla herself appearing at young Laura's bedside.

GLOSSARY OF FLASH TERMS USED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Gnostics: Smart, well dressed men.
• High flyers: Exceptionally good sports.
• Knights of the Brush and Moon: Drunken fellows wandering amok by moonlight in fields and ditches, trying to stagger home.
• Chaffing-crib: A room where drinking and bantering are going on.

• Tulips and Bigwigs: Preachers, usually Puritan and other nonconformist Protestant evangelical ones.
• Joe Miller: A famous Shakespearean player from the 1700s who was famous for being a stone-face deadpan actor. As an inside joke, his name was used for the collection of wisecracks that bears his name.
• Vade Mecum: Latin for "hand book."

• Red waistcoat: Uniform apparel of the Bow-street Runners, an early London police force replaced by the New Model Police (who dressed in blue rather than red) in 1839.
• Gammoners: Swindlers or bullshitters.
• Romoners: Gammoners who pretend to have occult powers.
• Old St. Giles: The most famous slum parish of London, also called "The Holy Land"
• Dunwich: A seacoast town east of London, once very large, which eroded away and fell into the sea; only a few streets and houses remain
• Dunwitch, Barony Of (note the "T"): A small estate in the hills West of Arkham, according to Colonial chronicler H.P. Lovecraft. Does not actually exist, but if it did, would be headed by Finn J.D. John, 18th Baron Dunwitch.
• Dunsany, Barony Of: A large estate in Ireland, including Dunsany Castle in County Meath, headed until 1957 by legendary fantasy author Edward J.M.D. Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany, one of Mr. Lovecraft's favorite authors.
• Rum te tum with the chill off: Most emphatically excellent.