Curiosity museums, weird as a mood, 80s Saturday morning cartoons, ant strips on fruit trees, and werewolf conventions... it's interview time with editors Daisy Butcher and Dr. Janette Leaf! Welcome to Whiskey and the Weird, a podcast exploring the British Library Tales of the Weird Series! This season, we're exploring our second book in the series ‘Crawling Horror: Creeping Tales of the Insect Weird.’ In this episode, we wrap season 2 with a special guest interview featuring the volume's editors, Daisy Butcher and Dr. Janette Leaf.
Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is watching You Are Not My Mother (2021; dir. Kate Nolan); drinking Westward Singly Malt.
Damien is reading the Roger Rabbit trilogy by Gary K. Wolf; drinking a boilermaker with Jameson Irish whiskey and Maine Beer's Lunch IPA.
Ryan is reading Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline; drinking the Bowmore 12.
Daisy is reading The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid; drinking orange-flavored gin. Mysterious!
Janette is watching I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020; dir. Charlie Kaufman); drinking The Glenlivet (and memories of the absinthe bar attached to the Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities).
What was that thing about If Insects Were Bigger? https://vintagenewsdaily.com/in-1909-the-strand-magazine-imagined-what-would-happen-if-giant-insects-attacked-london/
If you liked this week’s interview (and Crawling Horrors), follow the volume's editors @daisy2205 and @janetteleaf1.
Up next: Season 3... Promethean Horrors: Classic Tales of Mad Science, edited by Xavier Aldana Reyes.
Special thank you to Dr Blake Brandes for our Whiskey and the Weird music!
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