Episode two takes us to the famous summer weekend where four writer besties get drunk, possibly also high, and challenge one another to a writing contest of the supernatural variety. Also someone gets pregnant.

We read Lord Byron's "Darkness," followed by the introduction of John Polidori's The Vampyre.

Content warnings for today's episode include: mention of mental illness, incest, war, famine, death, infant death, blood, emaciation, and dismemberment.

Introduction song is "Surreal Forest" by Meydän, licensed under Creative Commons. The song playing intermittently through the podcast between transitions is "Mystery Suspense Piano Theme - Oscar" by Keyframe Audio. Podcast also includes music by Aleksey Chistilin from Pixabay.