The first murder on a British railway: Franz Muller killed banker Thomas Briggs in a moving first-class carriage in July 1864, and Seven Dials sold a ballad about it before the hanging. https://bakerstreetholmes.substack.com/p/the-ballad-that-ran-ahead-of-the #VictorianCrime #PennyDreadful
The Ballad That Ran Ahead of the Hanging
Franz Muller bludgeoned banker Thomas Briggs in a first-class carriage on the North London Railway in 1864, and Seven Dials sold the ballad before the rope was ready.
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October 31, 2026 at 10:27 PM
The first murder on a British railway: Franz Muller killed banker Thomas Briggs in a moving first-class carriage in July 1864, and Seven Dials sold a ballad about it before the hanging. https://bakerstreetholmes.substack.com/p/the-ballad-that-ran-ahead-of-the #VictorianCrime #PennyDreadful
Movie TV Tech Geeks #TVFeatures #PennyDreadful #JoshHartnett Forget ‘Below,’ Josh Hartnett’s 3-Part Gothic Thriller Series Is a True Masterpiece
Forget ‘Below,’ Josh Hartnett’s 3-Part Gothic Thriller Series Is a True Masterpiece
Penny Dreadful features Below star Josh Hartnett at his absolute best, and the 3-part series is worth revisiting.
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October 25, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Movie TV Tech Geeks #TVFeatures #PennyDreadful #JoshHartnett Forget ‘Below,’ Josh Hartnett’s 3-Part Gothic Thriller Series Is a True Masterpiece
Hear me out: Victorian style Pennydreadful once a month series of 5-6 shortish fics where Supernatural Ineffables solve the Jack the Ripper case? 🙃
October 20, 2026 at 12:38 PM
Hear me out: Victorian style Pennydreadful once a month series of 5-6 shortish fics where Supernatural Ineffables solve the Jack the Ripper case? 🙃
For five years the woman they called James Gray hid her sex through five hundred lashes and a musket ball at Pondicherry — then sold the tale for a shilling at the Old Bailey. https://bakerstreetholmes.substack.com/p/the-female-soldier-of-the-old-bailey #PennyDreadful
The Female Soldier of the Old Bailey — Midnight Dispatch
Hannah Snell, alias James Gray: five hundred lashes, a musket ball at Pondicherry, and a shilling life sold at the Old Bailey.
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October 20, 2026 at 9:14 PM
For five years the woman they called James Gray hid her sex through five hundred lashes and a musket ball at Pondicherry — then sold the tale for a shilling at the Old Bailey. https://bakerstreetholmes.substack.com/p/the-female-soldier-of-the-old-bailey #PennyDreadful
October 16, 2026 at 12:02 PM
In that case then the only person left to blame Dusk's smaller success is on Michael Lance Gilson because Ash was his character. (in several Vampire Live Action Games) You need to try and be cooler Lance :P
#vlarp #steampunk #vampires #comics #PennyDreadful
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#vlarp #steampunk #vampires #comics #PennyDreadful
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October 16, 2026 at 12:27 PM
In that case then the only person left to blame Dusk's smaller success is on Michael Lance Gilson because Ash was his character. (in several Vampire Live Action Games) You need to try and be cooler Lance :P
#vlarp #steampunk #vampires #comics #PennyDreadful
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#vlarp #steampunk #vampires #comics #PennyDreadful
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Jerry Abershaw, roaring boy of the Kingston road, laughed on the cart to Kennington and finished in chains on his own hill, where the crowd he had terrified picked his bones clean for pipe-stoppers. The Bones on Jerry's Hill. #TrueCrime #VictorianLondon #PennyDreadful
The Bones on Jerry's Hill
The last highwayman hanged in chains, the gallows print that sold his story, and the crowd that prized the bones out of his gibbet for tobacco-pipe stoppers.
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October 12, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Jerry Abershaw, roaring boy of the Kingston road, laughed on the cart to Kennington and finished in chains on his own hill, where the crowd he had terrified picked his bones clean for pipe-stoppers. The Bones on Jerry's Hill. #TrueCrime #VictorianLondon #PennyDreadful
Met #Blade at Pittsburgh Gaming Expo and he'll be hunting #vampires in #Victorian London this Halloween with Darkness of the Demimonde #TTRPG!
#PGX #pennydreadful #rpg #horror #indierpg
#PGX #pennydreadful #rpg #horror #indierpg
October 4, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Met #Blade at Pittsburgh Gaming Expo and he'll be hunting #vampires in #Victorian London this Halloween with Darkness of the Demimonde #TTRPG!
#PGX #pennydreadful #rpg #horror #indierpg
#PGX #pennydreadful #rpg #horror #indierpg
The schoolmaster who buried his friend in a cave, then out-argued the bones at York. Thirteen years and one sentence gave him away. Tonight's dispatch on Eugene Aram.
https://bakerstreetholmes.substack.com/p/the-schoolmaster-who-knew-too-many
#TrueCrime #PennyDreadful #18thCentury
https://bakerstreetholmes.substack.com/p/the-schoolmaster-who-knew-too-many
#TrueCrime #PennyDreadful #18thCentury
The Schoolmaster Who Knew Too Many Bones
Eugene Aram: the philologist who murdered his friend Daniel Clark, hid him in St Robert's Cave, and was betrayed by a single sentence.
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October 3, 2026 at 9:31 PM
The schoolmaster who buried his friend in a cave, then out-argued the bones at York. Thirteen years and one sentence gave him away. Tonight's dispatch on Eugene Aram.
https://bakerstreetholmes.substack.com/p/the-schoolmaster-who-knew-too-many
#TrueCrime #PennyDreadful #18thCentury
https://bakerstreetholmes.substack.com/p/the-schoolmaster-who-knew-too-many
#TrueCrime #PennyDreadful #18thCentury
Jack Sheppard had been dead a hundred years and more when the penny serial brought him back — and a valet in Park Lane said it put a murder in his head. Tonight: the housebreaker everyone knew. https://bakerstreetholmes.substack.com/p/the-housebreaker-everyone-knew #PennyDreadful
The Housebreaker Everyone Knew
Jack Sheppard, the boy who broke out of Newgate four times, and the penny serial that made him London's favourite criminal.
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September 29, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Jack Sheppard had been dead a hundred years and more when the penny serial brought him back — and a valet in Park Lane said it put a murder in his head. Tonight: the housebreaker everyone knew. https://bakerstreetholmes.substack.com/p/the-housebreaker-everyone-knew #PennyDreadful
September 22, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Happy birthday Billie Piper, born September 22, 1982.
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September 22, 2026 at 3:44 AM
Happy birthday Billie Piper, born September 22, 1982.
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An 1839 Edinburgh penny serial sold Mediterranean terror by instalment - a ship that wore her own name in flames across her stern. Tonight in The Midnight Dispatch. https://bakerstreetholmes.substack.com/p/the-demon-ship-off-malta #PennyDreadful
The Demon Ship, Off Malta
An 1839 Edinburgh penny serial sold the Mediterranean's most dreaded name: a ship that burned her own epithet across her stern.
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September 20, 2026 at 9:25 PM
An 1839 Edinburgh penny serial sold Mediterranean terror by instalment - a ship that wore her own name in flames across her stern. Tonight in The Midnight Dispatch. https://bakerstreetholmes.substack.com/p/the-demon-ship-off-malta #PennyDreadful
No one in a Holborn inn should ever bear a dead man's face. Tonight's dispatch turns the opening of Reynolds' penny serial, The Mysteries of the Court of London.
https://bakerstreetholmes.substack.com/p/the-likeness-at-the-george-and-blue
#VictorianLondon #PennyDreadful
https://bakerstreetholmes.substack.com/p/the-likeness-at-the-george-and-blue
#VictorianLondon #PennyDreadful
The Likeness at the George and Blue Boar
The Grand Staircase at Carlton House, Charles Wild, 1819 (public domain)
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September 15, 2026 at 9:15 PM
No one in a Holborn inn should ever bear a dead man's face. Tonight's dispatch turns the opening of Reynolds' penny serial, The Mysteries of the Court of London.
https://bakerstreetholmes.substack.com/p/the-likeness-at-the-george-and-blue
#VictorianLondon #PennyDreadful
https://bakerstreetholmes.substack.com/p/the-likeness-at-the-george-and-blue
#VictorianLondon #PennyDreadful
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September 11, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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September 10, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Will they never copy the Devil with a penny? So ran the taunt on Prest's 'Maniac Father' (Lloyd's, c.1842), where a seduced girl's wronged sire turns lunatic and the scaffold darkens the page. A penny bought the shiver. #PennyDreadful #VictorianLondon
September 10, 2026 at 7:20 AM
Will they never copy the Devil with a penny? So ran the taunt on Prest's 'Maniac Father' (Lloyd's, c.1842), where a seduced girl's wronged sire turns lunatic and the scaffold darkens the page. A penny bought the shiver. #PennyDreadful #VictorianLondon
September 9, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Here is the dreadful sold for a penny — 'Black Bess; or, the Knight of the Road,' by Edward Viles (1844): a mare with wings, galloping Dick Turpin from London to York in one night. All legend, sir, and all irresistible. #PennyDreadful #LondonHistory
Penny Dreadful — Black Bess; or, the Knight of the Road
Period woodcut cover of Edward Viles' penny dreadful 'Black Bess; or, the Knight of the Road' (1844), showing the highwayman Dick Turpin mounted on his mare — public domain
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September 6, 2026 at 11:09 AM
Here is the dreadful sold for a penny — 'Black Bess; or, the Knight of the Road,' by Edward Viles (1844): a mare with wings, galloping Dick Turpin from London to York in one night. All legend, sir, and all irresistible. #PennyDreadful #LondonHistory
Tonight's dispatch: the old bargain in the Black Forest — Reynolds's Wagner the Wehr-Wolf, where a stranger comes to the door and the price is two conditions. #PennyDreadful #VictorianLondon
The Wolf's Bargain — The Midnight Dispatch
Reynolds's penny dreadful, 1846: a shepherd, a stranger, and two conditions.
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September 5, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Tonight's dispatch: the old bargain in the Black Forest — Reynolds's Wagner the Wehr-Wolf, where a stranger comes to the door and the price is two conditions. #PennyDreadful #VictorianLondon
Lloyd's #PennyDreadful, 1846, no. 8 — a barber in Fleet Street who keeps his cellar stairs measured. In 'The String of Pearls' the laugh runs thin, the coins jingle, and a reader counts the steps down. Sixpence buys the shudder. #VictorianLondon
September 5, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Lloyd's #PennyDreadful, 1846, no. 8 — a barber in Fleet Street who keeps his cellar stairs measured. In 'The String of Pearls' the laugh runs thin, the coins jingle, and a reader counts the steps down. Sixpence buys the shudder. #VictorianLondon
423 Penny Dreadful
Horror movie about a traumatized woman scared of cars who gets stuck in the woods in a car. A hooded hitchhiker wreaks havoc. Better than expected, but still not a hidden gem.
#PennyDreadful #Trauma #Horror #Fear #Woods #Hitchhiker #MimiRogers #Phobia #AfterDarkFilms #AfterDark
Horror movie about a traumatized woman scared of cars who gets stuck in the woods in a car. A hooded hitchhiker wreaks havoc. Better than expected, but still not a hidden gem.
#PennyDreadful #Trauma #Horror #Fear #Woods #Hitchhiker #MimiRogers #Phobia #AfterDarkFilms #AfterDark
September 4, 2026 at 4:50 AM
423 Penny Dreadful
Horror movie about a traumatized woman scared of cars who gets stuck in the woods in a car. A hooded hitchhiker wreaks havoc. Better than expected, but still not a hidden gem.
#PennyDreadful #Trauma #Horror #Fear #Woods #Hitchhiker #MimiRogers #Phobia #AfterDarkFilms #AfterDark
Horror movie about a traumatized woman scared of cars who gets stuck in the woods in a car. A hooded hitchhiker wreaks havoc. Better than expected, but still not a hidden gem.
#PennyDreadful #Trauma #Horror #Fear #Woods #Hitchhiker #MimiRogers #Phobia #AfterDarkFilms #AfterDark
¡Qué bonita es #ElÚltimoAsalto! Ya me había encantado el libro de Moehringer, y la película ha respetado su esencia. También os digo que cada vez que veo a Josh Hartnett me entran unas ganas irrefrenables de ver otra vez #PennyDreadful. 😅 boxd.it/g5oPUF
A ★★★½ diary entry for Resurrecting the Champ (2007)
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August 29, 2026 at 8:52 PM
¡Qué bonita es #ElÚltimoAsalto! Ya me había encantado el libro de Moehringer, y la película ha respetado su esencia. También os digo que cada vez que veo a Josh Hartnett me entran unas ganas irrefrenables de ver otra vez #PennyDreadful. 😅 boxd.it/g5oPUF