Joe Ferguson

The Midnight Dispatch

Fiction EN ↓ 13 episodes

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 preda...

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Joe Ferguson

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Fiction

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Latest episode

Jan 6, 2026

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Episodes

The Dark Gate 06.01.2026

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 reality thins and long‑buried secrets stir. As the shadows tighten and the stakes rise, Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, W.B. Yeats, and Harry Houdini must confront forces that test not only th...

The Circle Reforms 30.12.2025

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 themselves drawn into a mystery older than the Underground itself. Their search for a missing friend leads them deep into forgotten tunnels, buried rivers and the city’s long‑silenced m...

Harbinger's Rite 23.12.2025

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 blurs the boundary between reason and ritual, and forces them to confront the secrets their friend Arthur Conan Doyle may have left behind. This episode delves into the uneasy marr...

Ice & Blood 16.12.2025

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 journals and archives, transforming them into immersive tales of ambition, survival, and mystery. In this episode, drawn from the private writings of a young Arthur Conan Doyle, listen...

One Last Flower 09.12.2025

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 drifting from laughter to questions of belief, mortality, and the unseen forces that shape human lives. As night falls, the city itself becomes a character—its alleys heavy with smoke,...

The Battle of Blythe Road 02.12.2025

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 symbols, artifacts, and ambitions that could reshape the balance of power. In this chapter of The Midnight Dispatch , skepticism meets belief, wit meets danger, and the battle betwee...

Of Verse & Veil 25.11.2025

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 drawn into a world where art, illusion, and belief collide — and where the line between performance and perception grows dangerously thin. At the heart of it all stands Dr. Joseph B...

The Great Escape Part 2 18.11.2025

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 something far stranger. Inspired by the cosmic dread of H.P. Lovecraft, this episode blends hallucinatory peril, mythic ambition, and the slow unraveling of reason. What begins as a...

The Great Escape Part 1 11.11.2025

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 rescue Harry Houdini, imprisoned after a séance gone violently wrong. But this is no ordinary scandal. Beneath the velvet charm and gaslit glamour lies a conspiracy cloaked in gree...

The Showman's Gambit 04.11.2025

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 philosophical elephants. What begins as a flirtation with theatrical excess soon spirals into something darker: a blindfolded swordsman, a fortune teller who sees too clearly, and Houdin...

The Midnight Dispatch Season 1 Trailer: The Ripper & The Rift 28.10.2025

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...

The Cursed Pen 28.10.2025

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 before her death—the line between fiction and fate begins to blur. Wilde and Doyle spar over logic, legend, and the lure of the occult, while a cursed pen begins to write its own s...

Wilde Nights 21.10.2025

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 terrified woman crashes into Wilde outside a theater, claiming she’s being watched. The encounter sets off a chain of events that leads Wilde through the heart of London's alleyway...

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