Ch. 57 - Varney the Vampire, or, The Feast of Blood (1845)

Our friend Tarra rejoins us for a chapter wherein Admiral Bell and Mr. Chillingworth are left alone to watch over the abandoned Bannerworth Hall. Varney the Vampire is a genuine penny dreadful, read aloud one chapter per week just like the original Victorian audience would do for the authentic 1840s coffeehouse experience. To instantly unlock over a hundred more chapters (literally), check out our Patreon.

From Netflix’s Bridgerton to Ridley Scott’s Napoleon, the Antiques Freaks tell all about the rare antique that Dee won’t eat.

An Unwarranted Market Prediction brought to you by Antiques Freaks, featuring clinch covers, bodice rippers, and a very particular brand of mass-market pulp paperback oft overlooked by vintage and antiquarian booksellers.

Emerald Fennell has thoroughly Wuthered our Heights. Let's get into it.

How to make friends and influence people? Consider sitting down and shutting up! All this and more in this tome of Edwardian university advice.

Our friend Olivia rejoins us for the chapter wherein the Bannerworths FINALLY LEAVE THE DAMN HALL! (Except for George, who is left behind Home Alone style.) Varney the Vampire is a genuine penny dreadful, read aloud one chapter per week just like the original Victorian audience would do for the authentic 1840s coffeehouse experience. To instantly unlock over a hundred more chapters (literally), check out our Patreon.

To stiff peaks, you say? (Alternatively, “Archimedes screw? I ‘ardly know ‘er!”)

Wanted: beetle hunk available for 24/7 free use, $20/day. It’s another wild story from the author of Sherlock Holmes, read aloud with commentary from our friends Chris and Paris of Terrible Book Club!

Do you really need to do all the assigned reading? How about performance enhancers in an academic setting? And what becomes of those students who fail to devote themselves to learning? Find out all that and more in this tome of Edwardian university advice!

Wherein a new record is set for most times Ken says “oh no” in a single episode! Welcome to interior design for early automobiles.