019: Major Bounce is bounced — Dick Turpin runs for it — the vampire's coffin is found — evil Mr. Grasper tries again — the duel by the seashore!

FIVE NEW FLASH-CANT WORDS AND PHRASES —

• "Academician"
• "Tog and kicks"
• "Shooting the cat"
• "Jobber knot"
• "Knife it"

Plus a chapter each from our five vintage Penny Dreadfuls!

0:04:10: SWEENEY TODD, Ch. 45 —

• Major Bounce steps into Sweeney Todd’s shop and asks to have his mustache shaved off ... will Sweeney Todd “polish him off,” do you think? We’ll see.

0:18:00: BLACK BESS (Dick Turpin) Ch. 7 —

• Highwayman Dick Turpin is awakened from his slumber with the word that the “redbreasts” — Bow Street runners, basically the police — are searching the hotel for him! Can he escape from their clutches?

0:39:50: VARNEY THE VAMPYRE, Ch. 7—

• In which the Bannerworth party, eager to see proof that the vampire is NOT their ancestor, steal away by moonlight to the family vault to open his coffin ... will the body still be there, or is it out on the heath seeking another life-renewing draft from poor Flora’s throat?

1:07:45: SPRING-HEEL'D JACK Ch. 7—

• Alas! The police have come to arrest the young wife Jack saved from a Fate Worse Than Death. Evil Mr. Grasper, his loins aching with frustration, accuses her of having stolen the check her husband foolishly forged. Has she forgotten to destroy it? And will the old letcher get away with this? Not if Spring-Heel'd Jack can help it!

1:20:00: THE BLACK BAND Ch. 7—

• Colonel Bertrand has challenged the Marquis of Willoughby to a duel with pistols after the Marquis caught him cheating at cards. Will the brave-hearted Marquis be slain? Will wickedness reign triumphant? And what, if anything, is Lord Lionel’s guilt in this fratricidal plot?

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!