All Episodes

6.01: To Ambush a Vampire: How Hard Can it Be? Well … — The Ghost-bride of Broseley Road. — The Murderess and Her Minions. (A “Graanum Gothic” episode.)

5.38: The bloody dagger of her future bridegroom hurled at her feet! — She dreamed a murder, then saw the room in which it was done! — The prophetess spake, and they died! (The “Sixpenny Spookies.”)

5.37: Sweeney Todd tries to murder Mrs. Lovett! — The hangman hanged, and for a shocking crime! — Trial and punishment of a cruel highway robber. (A “Ha’penny Horrid” Minisode.)

5.36: The highwaymen make a shocking discovery! — The crab, the chamber-pot, and the Call of Nature. — Introducing Miss Page — our Ninepenny Naughties hostess! (A “Twopenny Torrid" minisode)

5.35: “Down with the vampire!” the mob shouts, shaking their torches and pitchforks! — “Mother, how long am I to be dead?” — A clever excuse after being caught playing cards in church.

5.34: A murder forestalled by a daughter's spooky dream! — The whisky-drinking spirit in the old manor house. — The Dance of the Dead! (Segment 4 — The “Sixpenny Spookies.”)

5.33: Detective Blunt learns Sweeney Todd’s deadly secret! — Search for stolen trousers led to a dismembered torso! — High society’s favourite murdering stalker. (Segment 3 — The “Ha’penny Horrids.”)

5.32: The Coast Guard pounces on the smugglers! — The Maiden’s Surprise. — Introducing Miss Godfrey of 22 Upper Newman-street — our Ninepenny Naughties hostess! (Part 2 — The “Twopenny Torrids.”)

5.31: The mob sets fire to the vampyre’s house! — The murdering marquess’s date with destiny. — A street ballad about wife-selling in London!

5.30: The ghosts of Clifford House take a victim! — A warning from beyond the grave, unheeded. — Death comes for Milady! (Segment 4 — The “Sixpenny Spookies.”)

5.29: The walls start closing around Sweeney Todd! — Two Horrid Murders, served family-style. — One man’s very bad plan to save his kids from eternal damnation (Segment 3 — The “Ha’penny Horrids.”)

5.28: The highwaymen caught by the smugglers! — The frolicsome widow who wants to play … at cards! — Meet Miss Davis of Covent-garden — our Ninepenny Naughties hostess! (The “Twopenny Torrids.”)

5.27: The mob, the stake, and the dead body at the inn: Was he a VAMPIRE? — A dueling poet and a gambler’s comeuppance in The Lives of the Highwaymen! (Segment 1 — The “Penny Dreadfuls.”)

5.26: Rent for the mansion was dirt cheap — why? — The seduced maiden’s ghostly revenge! — The corpse in the basement. (A “Sixpenny Spookies" Minisode))

5.25: Sweeney Todd “polishes off” the spy Mrs. Lovett hired to watch him! — Hanged Today in History: The arsenic-using “Patron Saint of Mean Girls”! (Segment 3 — The “Ha’penny Horrids.”)

5.24: The highwayman hears a ghostly voice in the deserted mansion! — How Georgian London loved to gamble and guzzle! — Plus a naughty song and dirty jokes! (Segment 2 — the Twopenny Torrids)

5.23: The mob continues its vampire hunt in the local cemetery. — A ghostly warning for a fast-living publican. — A horrible disaster in a Scottish coal mine. (Segment 1 — The “Penny Dreadfuls.”)

5.22: Miss Jeromette’s ghost is not as angry as she should be. — The hauntings of the Portadown Bridge massacre. — A spectral woman in white! (Segment 4 — The “Sixpenny Spookies.”)

5.021: The walls are closing on Sweeney Todd! — The woman who sold her murdered baby’s clothes to buy gin. — A bloody cautionary tale for “drinking men”! (Segment 3 — The “Ha’penny Horrids.”)

5.20: The skeletons in the vault. — A golden age of highway robbery and crime! — A very naughty song about sailing on “The Open C—.” (Segment 2 — The “Twopenny Torrids.”)

5.19: The mob descends upon the graveyard, shovels in hand, seeking more vampyres! — Prince Albert and his “inexpressibles.” (Segment 1 — The “Penny Dreadfuls.”)

5.18: Choked by the fingers of a chain-rattling corpse! — Haunted by a child’s ghost? — The clergyman’s unpleasant pupil. (Segment 4 — The “Sixpenny Spookies.”)

5.17: Setting a trap for Sweeney Todd! — The Edgeware Road dismembered-torso murder. — Hanged Today in History. (Segment 3 — The “Ha’penny Horrids.”)

5.16: A scream rings out in the deserted mansion! — “German Princess” was a magnificent con artiste. (Segment 2 — The “Twopenny Torrids” feat. Highwayman Dick Turpin)

5.15: Torches, pitchforks, and a vampire! — Unsolicited advice for ladies during courtship. — Lord Bellamont’s third ball. (Segment 1 — The “Penny Dreadfuls” — feat. Varney the Vampyre.)

5.14: The mysterious Miss Jeromette. — The ghost’s return after 20 years. (A Sixpenny Spookies segment.)

5.13: Sweeney Todd escapes … for now! (A Ha’penny Horrid H’episode.) Also — Hanged Today in History: The corpse that testified! — The bloody crime of William Corder.

5.12: Dick Turpin’s first highway robbery! — The Swedish count who tried to woo a wife by murdering her husband. — A very naughty song about spoon-making! (Twopenny Torrids segment)

5.11: The duel is interrupted by a mob with torches and pichforks! — The Wild and Wicked Youth. (Two-Bob Blood-and-Thunders segment)

5.10: Sweeney Todd prepares to fly by night. — The murdering body-snatchers of Bethnel-green! — The highwaymen look for clues to Lady Dane’s fearful fate!

5.09: A view to a duel … with a vampire! — The murderer tries to claim his “prize,” but his ghostly victim has other plans for him. — What a lark on the Lord Mayor’s Day!

5.08: Sweeney Todd stalks abroad with a murder-list in his pocket! — The highwaymen investigate the secret of the old mansion. — 'Swift Nick' Nevison, the gentleman-robber friend of King Charles II!

5.07: Fangs at Ten Paces; or, Duelling with a vampyre! — A Bad Romance on the high seas? — “Landlord fill a Flowing Bowl,” a ripping fine drinking-song!

5.06: Mrs. Lovett vents her fury on Sweeney Todd! — The exploits of the original “gentleman highway robber.” — Hanged for murder, then handed over to the Reanimation Lab!

5.05: Escape from the bandits' hotel — with a ghost's help! — The romantic end of the Bonnie and Clyde of highwaymen. — Varney's foes are foiled again!

5.04: Mrs. Lovett cuts and runs! Or tries to … The highwaymen turn at bay. Is this the end for our felonious friends? — The man who mugged Olver Cromwell himself! — The Luddite Massacre of 1813.

5.03 (corrected): Alone with the vampire in the garden by night! — Mr. Wraxall finally meets Count Magnus and his tentacled companion! — A blasphemer’s Dreadful Fate!

5.02: The inn owner who sold everything and became a highway robber! — Col. Jeffery shows us how NOT to woo a maid. — Dick Turpin and Tom King turn at bay, facing eight officers. Is this the end?

5.1: The night-stalking vampyre returns! — The evil Count Magnus has been dead 300 years ... right? — A "Tiger King" moment involving an escaped lion! — The ghost that came to Study Hall!

4.20: Mrs. Lovett prepares to fly by night! Will she get away? — The highwaymen rob a spluttering Navy captain. — Plus street poetry, dirty jokes, and a couple Horrid Murder tales!!

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

4.18: Sweeney Todd resolves to murder our brave, plucky heroine; is this the end? — The highwaymen's retribution upon a murderer! — A ballad about a "Frisky Country Lass."

4.17: Lord Walter’s vampire-bride turns on his children! — Varney’s dreaded visitor. — The ghostly businessman on the train. — The noble generosity of a fierce lion!

4.16: In the lion’s den with Sweeney Todd! — The highwaymen witness a cowardly murder! — The Bloody Gardener’s Lament.

4.15: Locked in the vampire’s dungeon. — The fortune-teller’s ghostly visitor. —Walter’s vampire-bride begins to feed!

4.14: The horrors in the vault beneath Sweeny Todd’s shop! — A sea-cave in Scotland steeped in blood, gold, and horror. — The highwaymen give the officers the slip!

4.13: Death took his beloved, but sorcery brought her back! What could possibly go wrong? — Flora’s fiancé vanishes! — A horrid murder prevented by a dream! — Haunted Hinton Ampner House!

4.12: Exploring Sweeney Todd's murder-vault! — Yet another HORRID MURDER! — The highwaymen find a secret door! — A murdering earl hanged like a commoner!

4.11: A dead man comes to life! — The extirpation of the vampire countess. — The Grey Ghost of Wrotham. — The disappearance of Flora’s beloved: Is Sir Francis Varney to blame?

4.10: The murdering body-snatchers of old Bethnal Green! — Highwayman Dick Turpin is trapped by treachery! — Sweeney Todd packs his plunder. — A million-dollar jewel heist is foiled!

4.09: The vampire is tracked to her coffin! — The ghosts of Castle Glamis. — "His Satanic Majesty" visits a fortune-teller's tent! — The cadaver wakes up!

4.08: Blackmailing Sweeney Todd? — The highwaymen crash the officers' party. — The murderer arrives too late! — And three very spicy early-Victorian songs in praise of, uh, "Thingie."

4.07: The vampire victim's story is eerily familiar. — The youngest highway robber. — A ghostly vengeance. — Was this mysterious stowaway Varney the Vampyre?

4.06: Johanna's reckless plan to spy on Sweeney Todd! — The highwaymen's plan to rescue their friend. — Two naughty songs about Very Special Ladies. — Dirty jokes, and a few clean ones.

4.05: The ghost in the iron cage. — The vampyre's midnight meeting. — A pious sacrilege at Castle Karnstein!

4.04: The Child-flogger reaps what he sows. — The highwaymen almost rob a prince! — Plus some salacious songs, bad jokes, and other early-Victorian fun!

4.03: Six dead husbands, one dark secret! — Challenging a vampyre to a duel? — Laura's long-dead mother comes to her in a dream: "Beware the assassin!" — Lord Halifax's own ghost story.

4:02: The midnight burial at the crossroads. — Sweeney Todd goes to church. — Plus three Horrid Murders, two spicy songs, and one charge of bigamy! (A Ha'penny Horrid 'Hursday episode)

4.01: A portrait of the vampyre ... from 1698! — The artist sees a ghost, and sketches her. — Varney the Vampyre continues pestering his neighbours. — A strange prize-fight in milady's boudoir!

3.27: The ballet-girl saved from A Fate Worse than Death! — Faithless captain is stabbed by his fiancee. — A heavy price for making fun of the Royal family! (A Ha'penny Horrors 'Hursday minisode)

3.26: Evil Count Lerno's gang thirsts for young Edgar's blood! — A slightly-naughty early-Victorian song, and a few dirty jokes (a Twopenny Torrid Tuesday minisode)

3.25: How the lovely Diana Arlington was ruined. — The vampire stalks abroad by night! — Prosecuted by a ghost?!

3.24: Sir Richard learns to his horror what's in Mrs. Lovett's pies! — A horrid tragedy at the Gosford coal-mine. — Two tragic ends for two young lads. (A Ha'penny Horrors 'Hursday minisode)

3.23: Highwaymen Dick Turpin and Tom King at the barbaric inquest. — A slightly-naughty early-Victorian song, and a few dirty jokes (a Twopenny Torrid Tuesday minisode)

3.22: The aftermath of the dreadful vampyre's visit! — A face from a sinister childhood dream ... or was it? — What the bumps on your head say about YOU.

3.21: Kidnapped and spirited away to a distant castle! — The scaffold at one of Her Majesty's gaols. — Horrors of a medieval marriage. (A Ha'penny Horrors half-hour minisode)

3.20: The ballet-girl's daring attempt to escape from a dastard's clutches! — Plus a broadside ballad, and an early-Victorian naughty song. (A Twopenny Torrid Tuesday demi-hour minisode!)!

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.

3.18: Is Tobias finally safe from Sweeney Todd? Um, no ... — Buried alive! — A horrifying tiger attack. — Highway Robbery: A Stevens Family Tradition. (A Ha'penny Horrors Half-hour minisode)

3.17: Another highwayman, Tom King, tries to rob Dick Turpin; whereupon they join forces to rob a stagecoach.. — Plus some early-Victorian dirty song lyrics!

3.16: Sir Francis Varney's second visit to poor Flora! — Evil Lord Ruthven moves in on poor Mr. Aubrey's sister! — We learn a song about the Sunday Trading Riots of 1855.

3.15: "Mad" Lady Edith at MacLomond Castle.— A burglar caught by a cat.— Death on the Manchester Railway. (A Ha'penny Horrors Half-hour minisode)

3.14: The curiosity of young Edgar DeVille (Cruella's ancestor?) gets him into a tight spot! — Plus some early-Victorian dirty jokes and naughty song lyrics!

3.13: The Mysterious Mr. Montague. — The Vampyre caught at his hideous feast! — Lady B. struggles in vain to change her destiny. (A Sixpenny Supernatural Sunday full episode)

3.12: Mrs. Lovett has a big mouth when she sleepwalks! — A man murdered with gin. — The rusty nail in the drunkard's skull. (A Ha'penny Horrors Half-hour minisode)

3.11: Highwayman Dick Turpin fought the law, and the law ... didn't win, this time at least. But now Dick is flat broke! He needs to rob somebody, quick! (A Twopenny Torrid minisode)

3.10: The vampire's fair victim lets her guard down. — The "Vampyre" who started it all! — She survived being buried alive in an avalanche! (A Sixpenny Supernatural Sunday full episode!)

3.09: Colonel Mephistopholes executes his murderous plot! — Clara is saved from a fate ... not worse than death, but still pretty icky. — The robber's hanging-day. (A Ha'penny Horrors Half-hour)

3.08: Rose Mortimer's ordeal is over ... wait, where is this cab taking her? — And a pair of very explicit supper-club songs! (A Twopenny Torrid minisode)

3.07: Walter Sydney's secret. — The evil ghost of a "hanging judge!" — The Spanish lady's murderous scheme.

3.06: A victim barely escapes Sweeney Todd's clutches! — The murder of Miss Elms: A very cold 'cold case.' — The Cruel Captain — A Horrid Infanticide — it's a Ha'penny Horror 'Hursday episode!

3.05: Highwayman Dick Turpin is nabbed!... or is he? — The Jolly Fishmonger. — "My Wife's Funny Thing" (yes, that's exactly what he's singing about!) (A Twopenny Torrid minisode)

3.04: Varney the Vampyre challenged to a duel! — The evil Aungier Street ghost thirsts for a fresh kill! — The cat who solved his mistress's murder.

3.03: The villain raises the knife just as Spring-Heel'd Jack arrives! — The Policeman's Murder. — Killed by fear itself! (A Ha'penny Horror 'Hursday half-hour episode)

3.02: The titled swindlers bait their trap! — Also, a super-saucy supper-club song about a "dildoe," plus some early-Victorian "dad jokes"! (A Twopenny Terrible Demi-Hour episode)

3.01: The ballet-girl shanks her would-be murderer! — The ghost of the 'hanging judge.' — Astrology is just for fun ... or is it?

2.17: The sailor's revenge! — The grim story of the Haddington Murders. — History of punishment by hand amputation.

2.16: Sweeney Todd murders his way out of a tight spot. — A pair of salacious cock-and-hen-club songs! (A Twopenny Terrible Demi-Hour episode)

2.15: A midnight secret wedding! — Lucas Clavering's secret wealth. — Recovery of a woman hanged for murder!

2.14: A bride murdered at the altar! — A fake ghost, and a real consequence. —

2.13: The vampyre comes looking for a fight! Will he get one? — "The Female Pawnbroker," a spicy drinking-song. A Twopenny Terrible Tuesday half-hour episode!

2.12: Evil Count Lerno makes his move! — The titled hustlers move in on Richard Markham. — The door-knocker pirates at play! — And sundry flash terms, spicy songs, etc.etc.

2.11: A mother-daughter murder team. — The Hartlepool Tragedy. — And sundry grim dark tidbits. It's a Ha'penny Horrid 'Hursday minisode!

2.10: The Highwayman sees ... a spectre? — A true heart broken at the scaffold, alas! — A bawdy supper-club song: A Twopenny Terrible Tuesday minisode!

2.09: A murderess caught in the act! — The libertine is exposed as a thief! — We learn of The real-life Boxing Baroness, Lady Barrymore

2.08: The Vampire Lurks in the Garden. — Death's Hand upon the Steamboat's Boiler. — A Mysterious Malady Cripples an Entire Family.

2.07: Sweeney Todd and the loan shark. — A very angry young profligate. — A racy flash song about a buz-napper and a bawd!

2.06: Spring-heel'd Jack is busted... or is he? — A man who sees dead people. — More robbers' poetry about the "Brixton Dancing Academy."

2.05: Lord Lionel's indecent proposal ... Evil Count Lerno's moneymaking scheme ... the perils of raising the dead ... a robber's song!

2.04: Highwayman Dick Turpin is trapped like a rat! Or is he? — Lord Londonderry in the haunted castle! — Johanna rushes to her destiny!

2.03: Escape from the murder-house? — A pious predator unmasked. — The Admiral vs. the Vampire!

2.02: The evil parson makes his move. — Spring-heel'd Jack's plunge in the black river!

2.01: Lady Edith contemplates a fatal divorce. — Robbers and mace coves and thieves, oh my! (Season 2 Premier episode!)

031: Trapped in the Murderers' House! — Is This the Vampire? — The Vaults Give Up their Secrets — plus more flash-cant words!

030: Dick Turpin cries "Stand and deliver!" ... the bitter fruit of Lady Edith's secret marriage ... two more ballet-girls threatened with a Fate Worse Than Death! (Mid-Victorian Edition)

029: The Vampire Next Door ... venturing into the vaults ... a fish out of water in the Smithfield slum ... and yet another beleaguered ballet-girl!

028: Ha'penny Horrid Minisode: Hints for the Man-About-Town... when tempted by a night of bliss with one of those nice friendly ladies at the bar: Part 3 of 3

027: Will Big Ben end up in a pie? ... Will Highwayman Dick Turpin make it to London? ... the vampire returns! Or does he? ... Spring-Heel'd Jack almost caught ... the beleaguered ballet-girl!

026: Ha'penny Horrid Minisode: Hints for the Man-About-Town — How to act like a fashionably heavy drinker without becoming one: Part 2 of 3

025: A vampire bride for Charles Holland? ... Tobias's mind restored! ... the traveler's horrible secret ... the spring-heel'd demon in the crypt ... the sinister rat-eyed Midnight Agent!

024: Ha'penny Horrid Minisode: Hints for the Man-About-Town — How to recover smoothly from the ill effects of a night of debauchery, mayhem, and ... indiscretion: Part 1 of 3

023: Can Minna bring Tobias back? — The highwayman's orphan protege finds a home — is poor Flora vampire-cursed? — Spring-Heel'd Jack in a tight spot — the millionaire makes a snap decision!

022: Beefeater Ben's revenge — Dick Turpin Escapes — Pistol-packin' Flora gives the vampire a lively reception — Spring-Heel'd Jack impersonates Satan — The old man's secret.

021. Ha'penny Horrid Minisode: A brief biography of Highwayman Dick Turpin, from an 1840 chapbook !

020: A dog's life saved from Sweeney Todd—Dick Turpin saves a maiden from AFWTD*—the vampire's coffin empty!—Ellen's landlord comes home drunk—the result of the duel by the sea!

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!

018: Mrs. Lovett's beau is shaved — The highwayman's hotel — The family vampire — Evil Mr. Grasper's revenge — The duel by the sea-shore. Plus, five new flash-cant words!

017: In which Prof. Flash eats his own dogfood, and comes to some positive conclusions! (A short Tuesday-night update)

016: Sweeny Todd's nightmare vision — the Vampyre's return — the Highwayman in a tight spot — an Indecent Proposal — and more! Plus five flash-cant words and a Dreadful Dossier report. Join us!

015: The plunder of murdered men — could it have been a... a VAMPIRE? — the Highwayman's catacombs — the revenge of Spring-Heel'd Jack — a furtive midnight marriage — and more!

014: Bonus midweek episode! With Dick Turpin, Spring-Heel'd Jack, and the sinister Companions of Midnight!

013: Exploring Sweeney Todd's house — Spring-Heel'd Jack rescues a fair maiden — Dick Turpin escapes — Lord Lionel's initiation — and more!

012: Introducing Dick Turpin, Spring-Heel'd Jack, and the Companions of Midnight!

011: Sweeney Todd ch. 33-36 and HUGE NEWS! Plus Varney the Vampyre, and more flash.

010: Sweeney Todd ch.30-31-32, and more flash lingo!

009: Ch. 26-27-28-29, Sweeney Todd; plus some highway-robber slang

008: Ch. 22-23-24-25, Sweeney Todd

007: Ch. 18-19-20-21, Sweeney Todd

006: Ch. 14-15-16-17, Sweeney Todd

005: Ch. 11-12-13, Sweeney Todd

004: Ch. 8-9-10, Sweeney Todd

003: Ch. 5-7, Sweeney Todd

002: Ch. 2-4, Sweeney Todd

001: Introduction, and Ch. 1 of Sweeney Todd

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