The gang kicks off season four with a much shorter work by the Moby Dick guy, exposing the highly sus insurance industry, and sharing Jessica's greatest fear: people randomly showing up at her house. Welcome to Whiskey and the Weird, a podcast exploring the British Library Tales of the Weird series! This season, we're dissecting our fourth book in the series, ‘Heavy Weather: Tempestuous Tales of Stranger Climes.’ In this episode, our featured story is: The Lightning-Rod Man by Herman Melville
Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is watching You Won't Be Alone (2022, dir. Goran Stolevski); drinking Burnside Oregon Oaked Rye.
Damien is reading The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman; drinking Glenmorangie A Tale of Winter Scotch whisky.
Ryan is reading In A Lonely Place by Karl Edward Wagner; drinking Shackleton Scotch whisky.
If you liked this week’s story, check out The Bleeding House (2011; dir. Philip Gelatt) or Revival by Stephen King.
Up next: The Great Snow by Richard Jefferies
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