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The Midnight Dispatch presents Season 1: The Ripper & The Rift — a 12-part historical fiction thriller set in the gaslit shadows of Victorian London. It’s 1890. The city is modernizing, but something ancient is stirring beneath the cobblestones. When a terrified woman collides with Oscar Wilde outside a theater, she sets off a chain of events that draws Wilde and his companions into a mystery far stranger than scandal or murder. As bodies begin to appear — marked with symbols no one can explain — Wilde finds himself entangled with British Intelligence, occult secrets, and a darkness that predates the Empire itself. Blending real historical figures with supernatural intrigue, The Ripper & The Rift reimagines the Jack the Ripper murders through the eyes of artists, spies, and skeptics caught in a widening breach between reason and ritual. Written and produced by Joe Ferguson, The Midnight Dispatch is an ant
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The Midnight Dispatch is hosted by Joe Ferguson. The show has published 13 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "The Dark Gate" (6 January 2026, 51 minutes), "The Circle Reforms" (30 December 2025, 41 minutes), and "Harbinger's Rite" (23 December 2025, 38 minutes).
The Midnight Dispatch publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 34 minutes across 13 episodes.
Booking probability for The Midnight Dispatch is 19%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Midnight Dispatch requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Midnight Dispatch's contact route on record: verified email.
Joe Ferguson hosts The Midnight Dispatch, a fiction podcast with 13 episodes published.
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Episode #12
In the depths beneath London, our unlikely quartet faces their most dangerous descent yet. A trail of mysteries, rituals, and impossible phenomena has led them to a place older than the city itself — a place where...
Episode #11
London’s shadows are shifting. As strange symbols surface across the city and whispers of an unseen force ripple beneath the streets, four unlikely allies—W.B. Yeats, Harry Houdini, Bram Stoker and Oscar Wilde—find...
Episode #10
In Harbinger’s Rite , we return to London where intellect, intuition, and imagination collide in a city humming with hidden tensions. Oscar Wilde and Harry Houdini find themselves drawn into a deepening mystery—one that...
Episode #9
Step aboard the SS Hope , a whaling ship bound for the edge of the Arctic, and enter a world where history and myth converge. The Midnight Dispatch is a historical fiction anthology that breathes life into forgotten...
Episode #8
In this chapter of The Midnight Dispatch , the streets of Victorian London become the stage for a gathering unlike any other. Three towering figures of wit, reason, and illusion meet over supper, their conversation...
Episode #7
What begins as a murder investigation leads Wilde, Doyle, Houdini, and their companions into the hidden world of London’s secret orders. Behind ordinary doors, rival societies of magic and ritual collide—each guarding...
Episode #6
In Of Verse and Veil , we turn our gaze back to London’s fog‑laden streets, where wit, skepticism, and deduction converge in a city alive with secrets. Oscar Wilde, Harry Houdini, and Arthur Conan Doyle find themselves...
Episode #5
The escape continues—but freedom is far from guaranteed. In this second chapter of The Great Escape , Wilde and Houdini descend deeper into the heart of Vármegye Tower, where reality fractures and science curdles into...
Episode #4
When Oscar Wilde receives two letters—one from P.T. Barnum pleading for help, the other from Arthur Conan Doyle accepting an invitation to hunt a killer—he knows the world is ending twice. Wilde sets off for Budapest to...
Episode #3
Before the alleyways whispered of blood and symbols, the city pulsed with spectacle. In this episode, Oscar Wilde receives a lavish invitation from P.T. Barnum, summoning him to a circus of marvels, illusions, and...
The Midnight Dispatch
The Midnight Dispatch presents Season 1: The Ripper & The Rift — a 12-part historical fiction thriller set in the gaslit shadows of Victorian London. It’s 1890. The city is modernizing, but something ancient is stirring...
Episode #2
The fog thickens, the murders escalate, and Oscar Wilde suspects something far older than Jack the Ripper is stalking the streets. When a letter addressed to Arthur Conan Doyle surfaces—written by a terrified woman days...
Episode #1
London, 1890. Gaslamps flicker, fog thickens and something ancient stirs beneath the cobblestones. In this premiere episode, Oscar Wilde and artist Frank Miles navigate the quiet decadence of Victorian society — until a...
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