Billions of man-eating ants! Machismo! Pop-up video! Defining what's scary! Drunken outtakes! 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, our featured tale is: 'Leiningen Versus the Ants' by Carl Stephenson.
Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is watching Raised by Wolves (HBOMax); drinking Far North Rye Whiskey.
Damien is reading The Hole by Hye-young Pyun; drinking a BBQ Old Fashioned (Redemption rye, blueberry aigre-doux, black lemon bitters, smoked glass).
Ryan is reading DRACULA: The New Annotated Edition ed. by Leslie Klinger; drinking the Bowmore 12.
If you liked this week’s story, check out Starship Troopers (1997, dir. Paul Verhoeven).
Up next: ‘The Mummy's Soul' by Anonymous.
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