Episode 10 of Season Three! — A Sunday-evening full episode (which I goofed and set to publish a day early) IN WHICH —

01:50: VARNEY THE VAMPYRE, Ch. 18:

• In this chapter, Flora relaxes in her new, as-yet-uncontaminated-by-a-vampire room and tries to distract herself with a novel. Then she hears a soft footstep approaching the door ...

33:50: TERRIFIC REGISTER ARTICLE:

• We learn of three women buried by a winter's avalanche in the Alps, who were found alive when the snows melted the next spring!

42:10: THE VAMPYRE, by J.S. LeFanu:

• In which we learn the source of the ghostly footsteps padding down the stairs at 2 a.m. ... and we hear Tom's account of why he left the Aungier Street mansion so suddenly: he was convinced his life was in immediate peril, from a recurring vision of an evil-faced old man clutching a knotted rope... This is Part 2 of 3 parts (Part 3 will come next Sunday).

PLUS —

• We explore a "broadside ballad" published in 1850: "The Young Sailor Bold and The Unfortunate Shepherdess" ...

• We learn a few more Victorian "dad jokes" from good old Joe Miller!

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

EPISODE ART is from Varney the Vampyre, and shows a scene from a novel Flora is reading to distract herself from the threat of the vampire.