4.19: Lord Walter pays the price for disturbing the dead! — Varney the Vampyre's sinister visitor! — A fatal thunderstorm.

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!

This is our main one-hour Sunday-night episode. Including, after the break, the "Sixpenny Spookies" segment.

PART I: “The HALF-CROWN CAMPIES” segment: 0:00 — 31:00:

• 01:20: VARNEY THE VAMPYRE; or, THE FEAST OF BLOOD, Chapter 32: Varney’s visitor at last arrives. Spurs clank as he walks into the room; he’s clearly come on horseback. Varney tells his visitor he dreads the visit because of the memory it evokes each year — a memory of something not spelled out, but we do learn that Varney was dead and now is alive once again. We also gather that the visitor holds some kind of awful power over Varney still. What could it be?
• 20:20: BROADSIDE BALLAD: A possibly-true account of a young shepherd who, shortly before he was struck by lightning and killed, had some strange and spooky dreams.
• 26:50: TERRIFIC REGISTER ARTICLE: A strange chapel in Bremen, where centuries-old corpses are preternaturally preserved.

PART II: "THE SIXPENNY SPOOKIES," 31:20 — 1:15:00:

• 31:40: EARLY VICTORIAN GHOSTLY SHORT STORY, TO-WIT: Wake Not the Dead, by Ernst Raupach; final part: Walter finds the sorcerer waiting for him. But the course he offers Walter as his last hope, is almost as horrible as being sucked to death by the vampire. Will he have the courage to do it? Will it even matter if he does?
• 55:00: A SHORT GHOST STORY from the scrapbook of Charles Lindley, Viscount Halifax: If you’re familiar with “The Invalid’s Story,” by Mark Twain, think that story, but with less stinky cheese and a more vocal corpse. Also, it’s a dog train rather than a railroad train. And … all right, all right, it’s a completely different story, but almost as much fun to read.
• 1:12:45: A FEW SQUEAKY-CLEAN DAD JOKES from the early-1800s' most popular joke book: "Joe Miller's Jests; or, The Wit's Vade-mecum."

*The Barony of Dunwitch is located in a deep forest glade west of Arkham (where, as H.P. Lovecraft put it, “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.

GLOSSARY OF FLASH TERMS USED IN THIS EPISODE:

• COLLEGIATES: Prisoners in quod (gaol or prison). Not to be confused with ACADEMICIANS, which are brothel girls.
• BIRDS OF PREY: Lawyers.
• KNIGHTS OF THE BRUSH AND MOON: Drunken fellows wandering amok in meadows and ditches, trying to stagger home.
• CORINTHIAN: A fancy toff or titled swell. Used here as a reference to Corinthian Tom, the quintessential Regency rake depicted in Pierce Egan's "Life in London" (usually referred to as "Tom and Jerry").
• CHAFFING-CRIB: A room where drinking and bantering are going on.
• YARD OF WHITE TAPE: Large glass of white tape (gin).
• GOB-SLUICING DROPS: Beverage — your gob is your mouth.
• CAKES: Easy, stupid fellows.
• TOWN TABBIES: Dowagers of quality.
• 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."
• RUM TE TUM WITH THE CHILL OFF: Most emphatically excellent.