weird tales

Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is reading Monica by Daniel Clowes; drinking Town Branch (again) in a hot toddy.
Damien is reading Daphne by Josh Malerman; drinking Hibiki Japanese Harmony blended whisky.
Ryan is watching The Creator (2023; dir. Gareth Edwards); drinking Aberfeldy 16.
Aaron is reading various Golden Age of Detection tales featuring Reggie Fortune by H.C Bailey; drinking black tea.

Up next: Season 7! Or maybe a bonus episode?! Follow us on Instagram for an exclusive heads up.

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Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is reading Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro; drinking Town Branch Kentucky straight bourbon.
Damien is reading Fever House by Keith Rosson; drinking a Last Word (gin, chartreuse, lime, Luxardo).
Ryan is reading The Ninth Rain by Jen Williams; drinking The Caol Ila 12.

If you liked this week’s story, listen to the Welcome To Night Vale podcast by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor.

Up next: our interview with the volume's editor, Aaron Worth!

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Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is listening to SAVED! (2023 album) by Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter; drinking Springbrook Farms Adirondack High Rye.
Damien is reading The Far Reaches series (various authors) on Amazon Kindle Unlimited/Audible; drinking FEW American Whiskey.
Ryan is reading Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio; drinking the Talisker 10.

If you liked this week’s story, watch Stay Tuned (1992; dir. Peter Hyams) starring the late, great John Ritter.

Up next: "The Night Wire" by H.F. Arnold.

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Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is reading A Guest in the House by Emily Caroll; drinking Peerless Kentucky Straight Bourbon.
Damien is reading The Boatman's Daughter by Andy Davidson; drinking Glenfiddich 12.
Ryan is watching the original John Wick; drinking the Bowmore 12.

If you liked this week’s story, watch DEVS (TV series; Alex Garland, 2020).

Up next: "Uncle Phil on TV" by JB Priestley.

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Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is playing Wingspan (board game); drinking Peerless Kentucky Straight Bourbon.
Damien is reading Spin A Black Yarn by Josh Malerman; drinking Navigator Straight Bourbon Whiskey.
Ryan is reading "The Engine at Heartspring's Center" by Roger Zelazny; drinking the Balvenie 15 Carribean cask.

If you liked this week’s story, read The Grip of It by Jac Jemc.

Up next: "The Eidoloscope" by Robert Duncan Milne.

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Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is reading The Lesser Dead by Christopher Buehlman; drinking a Limestone Branch Yellowstone Toasted Bourbon.
Damien is reading Reprieve by James Han Mattson; drinking a Hemingway daiquiri (white rum, lime, Maraschino liqueur & grapefruit juice).
Ryan is playing Sunless Sea (VG - Failbetter Games, 2015); drinking a Fistful of Bourbon (again).

If you liked this week’s story, read "The Backwards Path to the Limbus" by Betty Rocksteady.

Up next: "The Wind in the Woods" by Bessie Kyffin-Taylor.

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Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is reading Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin; drinking a Burnside Oregon Oaked Bourbon.
Damien is reading Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward; drinking a Ardbeg Islay Single Malt.
Ryan is reading Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt; drinking a Fistful of Bourbon.

If you liked this week’s story, watch the entirety of the Final Destination franchise.

Up next: "Poor Lucy Rivers" by Bernard Capes.

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Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is reading Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney; drinking a No Wrong Answers dry hopped lager from Meier's Creek.
Damien is reading Blood Meridian by Cormac Macarthy; drinking a Middle Aged Adult Human DIPA from Trillium Brewing.
Ryan is reading Come With Me by Ronald Malfi; drinking a Cassis Manhattan.

If you liked this week’s story, search for "Ghost Files" on YouTube.

Up next: "Signals" by Stefan Grabinski.

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Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is watching Scavengers Reign (TV Series; 2023 - ); drinking a Noble Oak Double Oak Hot Toddy.
Damien is watching The Dead Center (2018; dir. Billy Senese); drinking Walcott Kentucky Straight Bourbon.
Ryan is reading Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand; drinking the showdoggedly named Old Particular's Probably Orkney's Finest 12 yr old Highland Single Cask.

If you liked this week’s story, read "In The Pines" by Karl Edward Wagner... if you can find it.

Up next: "Wireless" by Rudyard Kipling.

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Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is reading Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield; drinking a Swedish?! whiskey: Mackmyra Svensk Ek
Damien is reading Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt; drinking the Noble Oak Double Oak.
Ryan is reading The Nightmare Room by Chris Sorenson; drinking Glenlivet 14 year old Cognac finish.

If you liked this week’s story, watch the campy classic They Live (1988; dir. John Carpenter).

Up next: "Benlian" by Oliver Onions.

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Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is reading Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones); drinking a Noble Oak double oak whiskey + Wegman's apple cider.
Damien is watching A Haunting in Venice (2023; dir. Kenneth Branagh); drinking Hibiki Japanese Harmony.
Ryan is watching Deadwax (Shudder Series, 2018); drinking Evan Williams 100 Bottled-in-Bond.

If you liked this week’s story, read "The Anatomy Lesson" (short story) in Rapture of the Deep and Other Lovecraftian Tales by Cody Goodfellow.

Up next: Rontgen's Curse by Charles Crosthwaite.

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Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is watching The Day of the Beast (1995, dir Alex de la Iglesia); drinking Burnside Oregon Oaked Bourbon... with eggnog.
Damien is watching Nocturnal Animals (2016; dir. Tom Ford); drinking Spiced Honey Iced Toddy w/ Wolcott Bourbon.
Ryan is playing Dave the Diver (VG; Mintrocket 2022); drinking a Hot Bourbon Apple Cider.

If you liked this week’s story, check out Ghosts UK (TV series; 2019-present).

Up Next: Season 6 kicks off with "The Statement of Randolph Carter" by H.P. Lovecraft from the volume The Night Wire, and Other Tales of Weird Media, edited by Aaron Worth.

Special music licensed for non-commercial use through Creative Commons:
Intro/Outro: This is Christmas by Scott Holmes
Summary Poem: Christmas Meditation by Dee Yan-Key

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Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is watching Hell House, LLC (2015, dir Stephen Cognetti); drinking Blue Point Mother Pumpkin Ale.
Damien is about to read Not Forever, But For Now by Chuck Palahniuk; drinking a Bloody Mary with Middlebar Mary mix and Reyka vodka.
Ryan is reading Come Closer by Sara Gran; drinking a Ghoul's Blood cocktail (don't ask).

If you liked this week’s story, read the rest of Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous, edited by Ellen Datlow.

Up next: Season Six! Tune in to hear which volume we're covering...

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Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is reading Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer; drinking Noble Oak Double Oak.
Damien is watching The House of the Devil (2009, dir. Ti West); drinking a Last Word (gin, green chartreuse, lime, luxardo).
Ryan is watching Satan's Slaves (2017; dir. Joko Anwar); drinking Blair Athol 12 yr scotch whisky.

If you liked this week’s story, watch Lake Mungo (2008; dir. Joel Anderson).

Up next: Halloween bonus story! Read "The Ghost of a Flea" by Priya Sharma found in Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous, edited by Ellen Datlow. Then... Season 6!

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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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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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 Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is reading The Border of Paradise by Esmé Weijun Wang; drinking FEW Whiskey & TJ's Ginger Beer.
Damien is reading Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird by Agustina Bazterrica; drinking a Salty Dog (gin, grapefruit, salt).
Ryan is reading Jackal, Jackal by Tobi Ogundiran; drinking The Bowmore 12 yr old.

If you liked this week’s story, read the American Gods spinoff short Black Dog by Neil Gaiman.

Up next: Forgotten Harbour by Gordon Hillman.

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Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is reading Where I End by Sophie White; drinking Meier's Creek Morning Sun.
Damien is reading The Beast You Are: Stories by Paul Tremblay; drinking Glenlivet Nadurra.
Ryan is playing Dredge (2023 video game); drinking Angel's Envy Port Wine aged whiskey.

If you liked this week’s story, watch Reefer Madness (1936; dir. Louis J. Gasnier).

Up next: The Death Hound by Dion Fortune.

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Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is reading Hawk Mountain by Conner Habib; drinking Beacon Small Batch Bourbon.
Damien is reading Maeve Fly by CJ Leede; drinking a terrible spicy paloma (Ancho Reyes, Xicaru mezcal, lime juice and Squirt).
Ryan is reading Butcher's Crossing by John Williams; drinking Yellowstone Whiskey.

If you liked this week’s story, watch The Possession (2012; dir. Ole Bornedal).

Up next: A Psychical Invasion by Algernon Blackwood.

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Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is reading The Vile Thing We Created by Robert P Ottone; drinking Bull Run Bourbon.
Damien is reading The Relic (Pendergrast #1) by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child; drinking a Tom Collins (Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin, lemon, sugar, soda).
Ryan is reading The Dark Descent anthology edited by David Harwell; drinking Bowmore 12.

If you liked this week’s story, watch The Pyramid (2014; dir. Grégory Levasseur).

Up next: The Case of the Fortunate Youth by Moray Dalton.

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