We fall in love with a different Gordon Hillman (because this author is a literal murderer), discuss a collection that checks almost every literary taboo box, and get "mediumly confused" by arguably the zaniest opening to the Michael Bay-est short story ever. And melons. Lots of melon talk. 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 episode, our featured story is: Forgotten Harbour by Gordon Hillman.
Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is watching Last Sentinel (2023; dir. Tanel Toom); drinking a PBR Shandy.
Damien is reading They Were Here Before Us: A Novella in Pieces by Eric LaRocca; drinking a Fog Cutter (light rum, cognac, gin, lemon, orange, orgeat, sherry float).
Ryan is listening to The Cromcast; drinking Laphroaig Select.
If you liked this week’s story, watch The Fog (1980; dir. John Carpenter). Do NOT watch The Fog (2005; dir. Rupert Wainwright) which is terrible.
Up next: Red Gauntlets of Czerni by Seabury Quinn. This one's out of volume, find it in A Rival From the Grave: The Complete Tales of Jules de Grandin, Volume Four or here.
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