It's Halloween! Ryan drinks ghoul's blood, we jump forward in time and cover a modern horror short, and Jess sports better facial hair than Damien and Ryan combined. Plus, slashers, candy debates and Friday the 13th: The Series?! Welcome to Whiskey and the Weird, a podcast exploring the British Library Tales of the Weird series! This season, we're dissecting our fifth book in the collection, ‘The Ghost Slayers: Thrilling Tales of Occult Detection.’ In this bonus episode, our featured story is: The Ghost of a Flea by Priya Sharma, as read from Ellen Datlow's anthology Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous.
Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is watching Hell House, LLC (2015, dir Stephen Cognetti); drinking Blue Point Mother Pumpkin Ale.
Damien is about to read Not Forever, But For Now by Chuck Palahniuk; drinking a Bloody Mary with Middlebar Mary mix and Reyka vodka.
Ryan is reading Come Closer by Sara Gran; drinking a Ghoul's Blood cocktail (don't ask).
If you liked this week’s story, read the rest of Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous, edited by Ellen Datlow.
Up next: Season Six! Tune in to hear which volume we're covering...
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