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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Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is reading Ascension by Nicholas Binge; drinking Roknar Rye.
Damien is reading The Button Box trilogy by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar; drinking High West Campfire blend.
Ryan is watching Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves movie (and pining over Pine); drinking Edradour 10.

If you liked this week’s story, read Killing Mister Watson by Peter Matthiessen.

Up next: The Valley of the Veils of Death by Bertram Atkey.

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Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is reading The Bone Mother by David Demchuk; drinking Bright Lights, Big Bourbon by Hudson Whiskey.
Damien is reading The Dead Djinn Universe preamble (A Dead Djinn in Cairo, The Angel of Khan El-Khalili, and The Haunting of Tram Car 015) by P. Djeli Clark; drinking Wheel Horse bourbon whiskey.
Ryan is reading John the Balladeer stories by Manly Wade Wellman (forthcoming volume from Valancourt Press, Fall 2023); drinking Glenlivet 14 Cognac Cask Single Malt.

If you liked this week’s story, watch Netflix's Cabinet of Curiosities, S1E8: The Murmuring (dir. Jennifer Kent).

Up next: In Death as in Life by Joseph Payne Brennan.

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Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is reading Linghun by Ai Jiang; drinking FEW Straight Bourbon.
Damien is reading If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe (John Dies at the End, #4) by Jason Pargin aka David Wong; drinking Oban 14 Scotch whisky.
Ryan is reading One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson; drinking Glen Scotia 12 Campbeltown Single Malt.

If you liked this week’s story, read The House with a Clock in Its Walls by John Bellairs, illustrated by Edward Gorey.

Up next: The Fear by Alice & Claude Askew.

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Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Kevan is reading The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram; drinking the Ardbeg.
Jessica is reading All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes; drinking New Deal Distillery Bootstrap Whiskey.
Damien is reading Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez; drinking Hibiki Japanese Harmony.
Ryan is reading The Strange by Nathan Ballingrud; drinking Auchentoshan 12yr single malt.

If you liked this week’s interview, read ecofiction, tell stories in the Bardic tradition, and acknowledge the neurochemical storm in every person's brain. Also, check out Kevan Manwaring's other works in Panorama Journal and his latest collection, Ballad Tales: An Anthology of British Ballads Retold.

Up next: Season 5! Join us as we investigate... The Ghost Slayers: Thrilling Tales of Occult Detection, edited by Mike Ashley.

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Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is reading A Touch of Jen by Beth Morgan; drinking Yellow Bird Tennesssee Whiskey.
Damien is reading The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 2 by James Tynion IV, Alvaro Martinez Bueno, et al; drinking many GinGin Mules with Reed's Strongest Ginger Beer and Berkshire Mountain's Greylock Gin.
Ryan is reading Breckendridge Elkins stories by Robert E. Howard; drinking Angel's Envy Bourbon.

If you liked this week’s story, read Prey (2002) by dead author Michael Crichton. Or watch the Hitchcock film, but it's nothing like the story. Trust us.

Up next: An interview with this volume's editor, Dr. Kevan Manwaring!

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Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is listening to Spooko (an Australian podcast); drinking Apocalypse IPA by 10Barren Brewing.
Damien is reading Hell Hound by Ken Greenhall; drinking Xicaru Reposado Mezcal.
Ryan is reading stuff edited by Marvin Kaye; drinking Old Forester "Statesman" Bourbon.

If you liked this week’s story, watch a MICHAEL SHANNON/JEFF NICHOLS DOUBLE FEATURE! Take Shelter (2011; dir. Jeff Nichols) + Midnight Express (2016; dir. Jeff NIchols).

Up next: The Birds by Daphne du Maurier.

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Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is reading Concerning Those Who Have Fallen Asleep by Adam Soto; drinking a Maple Cardamom Old Fashioned with last week's Yellowstone Bourbon.
Damien is reading Devil House by John Darnielle; drinking a pickleback! Jameson Irish whiskey + Grillo's spicy dill pickle brine.
Ryan is reading The Witch of Lime Street by David Jaher; drinking Gramling Woods Rye Malt Whiskey.

If you liked this week’s story, watch The Perfect Storm (2000; dir. Wolfgang Petersen).

Up next: The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes by Margaret St. Clair.

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Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is reading Saltblood by T.C. Parker; drinking "Yellowstone Select" Kentucky Bourbon by Limestone Branch Distillery.
Damien is watching The West Wing (TV series); drinking the Arrrrdbeg 10.
Ryan is watching Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre (Netflix); drinking a whiskey sour with Knob Creek Bourbon.

If you liked this week’s story, watch In The Earth (2021; dir. Ben Wheatley).

Up next: Through the Vortex of a Cyclone by William Hope Hodgson.

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