Episode 198: Curtain Call (ad-free)

Our love of all things thrilling and dramatic has led to some amazing achievements. But in the very center of that cultural legacy is a story that’s both dark and chilling. And it comes with an encore that seems too strange to be true.

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Further Reading

1. “Civil War: A chance encounter with John Wilkes Booth,” RVA News, November 2013, https://rvanews.com/features/civil-war-chance-encounter-john-wilkes-booth/105102.
2. “About the Adelphi Theatre.” LW Theatres. Accessed September 12, 2021. https://lwtheatres.co.uk/theatres/adelphi/about-the-adelphi-theatre.
3. Brandon, David and Alan Brooke. Haunted London Underground. Stroud: The History Press, 2013 (ebook edition).
4. Britannica, s. v. “Melodrama.” Accessed September 12, 2021. https://www.britannica.com/art/melodrama.
5. Conliffe, Ciaran. “Fred Demara, The Great Imposter.” Headstuff, October 22, 2016.
6. Crichton, Robert. The Great Impostor. New York: Random House, 1959.
7. “Foul Assassination of Mr. William Terriss, the Celebrated Actor.” The Illustrated Police News, December 25, 1897.
8. Goodman, Jonathan. Acts of Murder. London: Futura, 1987.
9. Hailey, Alex. “The Ghost of William Terriss.” Untold Lives blog, British Library. October 31, 2017. https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2017/10/the-ghost-of-william-terriss.html.
10. Millward, Jessie. Myself and Others. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1923.
11. “Mr. Terriss Assassinated.” The Morning Post, December 17, 1897.
12. “Richard Archer Prince.” The Proceedings of the Old Bailey. Accessed September 19, 2021. https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?div=t18980110-113.
13. Röttgers, Philipp. “William Terriss—The ghost of a murdered actor.” London Beyond Time and Place, May 23, 2020. https://london-beyond-time-and-place.com/william-terriss-the-ghost-of-a-murdered-actor.
14. Smythe, Arthur J. The Life of William Terriss, Actor. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1898.
15. Steinbach, Susie. “Victorian era.” Britannica. Accessed September 12th, 2021. https://www.britannica.com/event/Victorian-era.
16. Storey, Neil R. The Little Book of Murder. Stroud: The History Press, 2013.
17. Terriss, William et. al. “’The Stage as a Profession’: an 1897 controversy.” The Shaw Review 11, no. 2 (1968): pp. 52-78.
18. “The Funeral of Mr. Terriss.” The Standard, December 22, 1897.
19. “History of the Theatre Royal of Drury Lane,” Paranorms, https://paranorms.com/amp/theatre-royal-of-drury-lane.
20. “Most Haunted Drury Lane Theatre,” The Journal of Paranormal Science, http://thejournalofanomalousscience.com/most-haunted-drury-lane-theatre.
21. “The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane,” Mysterious Britain & Ireland, http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/hauntings/the-theatre-royal-drury-lane.
22. “Charles Macklin,” Theatre History, http://www.theatrehistory.com/irish/macklin001.html
23. “Inside the world’s most haunted theatre,”  The Guardian, October 29, 2015 https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/oct/29/most-haunted-theatre-ghosts-superstitions-theatre-royal-drury-lane.