We're all haunted suburban dads this week, as we geek out over more body horror than we're used to, compare Seabury Quinn and Neil Gaiman's sex-changing, soft-core scifi, and try to calm a very special, old and pale Ryan down for having to go off-book to find a Jules de Grandin story. 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, we're going off-book with an out-of-volume story featuring the famed Jules de Grandin: Red Gauntlets of Czerni by Seabury Quinn.
Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is reading The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey; drinking King's County Peated Bourbon.
Damien is reading The Handyman Method by Nick Cutter and Andrew F Sullivan; drinking a spicy ancho marg (zarpado, ancho reyes, simple, lime).
Ryan is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry; drinking Remy Martin VSOP.
If you liked this week’s story, watch – or call! – Ghostbusters (1984; dir. Ivan Reitman).
Up next: The Searcher of the End House by William Hope Hodgson.
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