Qualla: The Black Dog of Newgate https://qualla.com/the-black-dog-of-newgate en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: The Black Dog of Newgate https://qualla.com/the-black-dog-of-newgate The Black Dog of Newgate: Introduction https://qualla.com/the-black-dog-of-newgate/ Newgate Prison stood, for seven centuries, as London's worst place. Built into the city wall at the end of Newgate Street, it housed the poor and the desperate, the political prisoner and the condemned, in conditions so foul that visitors fainted from the smell. Prisoners brought before the courts at the adjacent Old Bailey sometimes died of typhus before they could be sentenced. The medieval Newgate had been particularly grim. And out of one terrible winter of the 13th century - the precise year is uncertain, but the chronicles record a famine during the reign of Henry III - came one of London's first ghost stories. The Black Dog of Newgate was a spectral hound said to walk the corridors of the prison at night, hunting prisoners who had committed an unspeakable crime. The tale was first written down in 1596 by a young inmate named Luke Hutton, in a pamphlet titled with characteristic 16th-century enthusiasm: The Discovery of a London Monster, called the Blacke Dogg of Newgate: Profitable for all Readers to Take Heed by.

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/the-black-dog-of-newgate-wp/gcpv-the-black-dog-of-newgate-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full The Black Dog of Newgate: What the Pamphlet Says https://qualla.com/the-black-dog-of-newgate/ Hutton's account opens in a pub called the Black Dog public house, where the narrator falls into conversation with a poor thin-gut fellow - a stranger who appears unwell, perhaps half-starved. The stranger tells the narrator the story behind the pub's name. During the reign of He...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/the-black-dog-of-newgate-wp/gcpv-the-black-dog-of-newgate-what-the-pamphlet-says.mp3 0:06 2 full The Black Dog of Newgate: The Stranger Who May Not Be a Stranger https://qualla.com/the-black-dog-of-newgate/ There is a careful ambiguity at the heart of Hutton's pamphlet. The Thin-gut fellow telling the story has obviously suffered. Towards the end of the conversation, he claims that the supernatural tale of the dog is untrue. The only Black Dog he knows of, he says, is a great black ...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/the-black-dog-of-newgate-wp/gcpv-the-black-dog-of-newgate-the-stranger-who-may-not-be-a-stranger.mp3 0:06 3 full The Black Dog of Newgate: Black Dogs in English Folklore https://qualla.com/the-black-dog-of-newgate/ The Black Dog of Newgate fits into a much older tradition. Across England, ghost stories about spectral hounds have been recorded since at least the Anglo-Saxon period. Different counties name them differently: Black Shuck in East Anglia, Padfoot in West Yorkshire, the Barghest a...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/the-black-dog-of-newgate-wp/gcpv-the-black-dog-of-newgate-black-dogs-in-english-folklore.mp3 0:06 4 full The Black Dog of Newgate: Amen Court and the Wall https://qualla.com/the-black-dog-of-newgate/ There is a quieter sequel to the story that survives in a different form. Just behind the site of the old Newgate Prison, beyond a high brick wall, stood Amen Court - a small enclosed courtyard of houses belonging to the canons of St Paul's Cathedral. The wall separated the priso...

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]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/the-black-dog-of-newgate-wp/gcpv-the-black-dog-of-newgate-amen-court-and-the-wall.mp3 0:06 5 full The Black Dog of Newgate: What Stands Here Now https://qualla.com/the-black-dog-of-newgate/ Newgate Prison was rebuilt in stone in the 18th century, partially destroyed during the Gordon Riots in 1780, rebuilt again, and finally demolished in 1902. The Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, more commonly called the Old Bailey, was built on the site. The dome of th...

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