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

A half-hour- long Tuesday Twopenny Terrible Minisode IN WHICH —

0:02:30: TERRIBLE TIDBIT of the DAY for JULY 22:

• A sad account of a steamboat voyage on July 22, 1850, which ended with a terrific boiler explosion and much loss of life. Originally published in Household Words magazine by Charles Dickens; courtesy of Cate Ludlow and The History Press (UK).

0:08:00: VARNEY THE VAMPYRE, Ch. 16:

• "The Meeting of the Lovers in the Garden. — An Affecting Scene. — The Sudden Appearance of Sir Francis Varney." Charles Holland is trying to convince Flora to allow him to stay and support her despite her potential incipient vampirism. He pleads his case in the summer-house in the garden. But soft: whose soft footfall is that, approaching the summer-house? Could it be the vampire himself?

0:27:00: TERRIFIC REGISTER, pg. 6:

• "An Account of a Family Who Were All Afflicted with the Loss of their Limbs": The melancholy account of a family of eight, all of whom suddenly developed black spots on their feet and ankles which led to amputations of varying severity and to the death of an infant.

PLUS —

• A miscellany of flash-cant words, the ballad of an old watchy, and other tidbits of late-Regency and early-Victorian life!

Join host Finn J.D. John. for a half-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!