Episodes

  • Halloween Bonus: Rangel by Matthew M. Bartlett
    Oct 31 2024

    Bar Talk (our recommendations):
    Jessica is watching Milk & Serial (2024; dir. Curry Barker); drinking Hot Apple Cider with Noble Oak Double Oak BOurbon.
    Damien is watching Possum (2018; dir. Matthew Holness); drinking Redbreast 15.
    Ryan is reading Not A Speck of Light: Stories by Laird Barron; drinking 2XO Bourbon.

    If you liked this week’s story, check out Lord of Misrule (2023; dir. William Brent Bell).

    Up next: The Woman of the Woods by Abraham Merritt

    Special thank you to Dr Blake Brandes for our Whiskey and the Weird music!

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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • S7E8: The Ash Tree by M. R. James
    Sep 29 2024

    Bar Talk (our recommendations):
    Jessica is watching Humane (2024; dir Caitlin Cronenberg; drinking Resurgent Botanical Whiskey.
    Damien is reading Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova; drinking the non-alc High Rhode by Kin Euphorics.
    Ryan is reading the many gory works from Matthew M. Bartlett; drinking the Caol Ila 12 Year Old scotch whisky.

    If you liked this week’s story, check out The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave.

    Up next: The Woman of the Woods by Abraham Merritt

    Special thank you to Dr Blake Brandes for our Whiskey and the Weird music!

    Like, rate, and follow! Check us out @whiskeyandtheweird on Instagram, Threads & Facebook, and at whiskeyandtheweird.com

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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • S7E7: The Guardian of Mystery Island by Edmond Nolcini
    Sep 22 2024

    Bar Talk (our recommendations):
    Jessica is reading Negative Space by B. R. Yeager; drinking Standard Proof Wildflower Rye, infused with honeysuckle for some reason.
    Damien is reading The House of Bone and Rain by Gabino Iglesias; drinking a Shipwreck: bourbon, dark rum, lime, simple, mint.
    Ryan is reading The Justice of Kings by Richard Swan; drinking Campbeltown Journey blended scotch whisky.

    If you liked this week’s story, check out American Elsewhere by Robert Jackson Bennett.

    Up next: The Ash Tree by M. R. James

    Special thank you to Dr Blake Brandes for our Whiskey and the Weird music!

    Like, rate, and follow! Check us out @whiskeyandtheweird on Instagram, Threads & Facebook, and at whiskeyandtheweird.com

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    56 mins
  • S7E6: The Moaning Lily by Emma Vane
    Sep 15 2024

    Bar Talk (our recommendations):
    Jessica is reading The Gunslinger by Stephen King; drinking a PBR shandy, baby.
    Damien is reading Chlorine by Jade Song; drinking Maine Beer Company's Dinner DIPA.
    Ryan is watching Exhuma (2024; dir. Jang Jae-hyun); drinking the Balvenie 14 yr, Caribbean Cask finish.

    If you liked this week’s story, watch The Apostle (2018; dir. Gareth Evans).

    Up next: The Guardian of Mystery Island by Edmond Nolcini

    Special thank you to Dr Blake Brandes for our Whiskey and the Weird music!

    Like, rate, and follow! Check us out @whiskeyandtheweird on Instagram, Threads & Facebook, and at whiskeyandtheweird.com

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    58 mins
  • S7E5: The Green Death by H. C. McNeile
    Sep 8 2024

    Bar Talk (our recommendations):
    Jessica is watching Monolith (2022; dir. Matt Vesely); drinking a cucumber brine martini with Freeland Spirits gin.
    Damien is reading I Was A Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones; drinking Suntory World Whisky Ao.
    Ryan is reading The Great State of West Florida by Kent Wascom; drinking the Edradour 10 yr.

    If you liked this week’s story, watch Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022; dir. Halina Reijn).

    Up next: "The Moaning Lily" by Emma Vane

    Special thank you to Dr Blake Brandes for our Whiskey and the Weird music!

    Like, rate, and follow! Check us out @whiskeyandtheweird on Instagram, Threads & Facebook, and at whiskeyandtheweird.com

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    59 mins
  • S7E4: The Flowering of the Strange Orchid by H. G. Wells
    Sep 1 2024

    Bar Talk (our recommendations):
    Jessica is reading Saga vol 1-11 by Brian K Vaughan; drinking Meier's Creek Mo Money Mo Kolsch.
    Damien is watching Channel Zero: Candle Cove (2016; SyFy); drinking Boulevardiers (bourbon, campari, sweet vermouth).
    Ryan is watching Eric (Netflix limited series, 2024); drinking the Talisker 10.

    If you liked this week’s story, read The Ruins by Scott Smith.

    Up next: "The Green Death" by H C. McNeile

    Special thank you to Dr Blake Brandes for our Whiskey and the Weird music!

    Like, rate, and follow! Check us out @whiskeyandtheweird on Instagram, Threads & Facebook, and at whiskeyandtheweird.com

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    52 mins
  • S7E3: Professor Jonkin's Cannibal Plant by Howard R Garis
    Aug 25 2024

    Bar Talk (our recommendations):
    Jessica is watching Battlestar Galactica (2004; SyFy); drinking Great Jones Rye Whiskey.
    Damien is reading The Lost by Jack Ketchum; drinking Guinness Nitro Draught but talking about Forged.
    Ryan is watching The Devil All The Time (2020; dir. Antonio Campos); drinking The Auchentoshun 12.

    If you liked this week’s story, read Borne by Jeff VanderMeer

    Up next: "The Flowering of the Strange Orchard" by H. G. Wells

    Special thank you to Dr Blake Brandes for our Whiskey and the Weird music!

    Like, rate, and follow! Check us out @whiskeyandtheweird on Instagram, Threads & Facebook, and at whiskeyandtheweird.com

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    53 mins
  • S7E2: The Giant Wistaria by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    Aug 18 2024

    Bar Talk (our recommendations):
    Jessica is watching Stopmotion (2023: dir Robert Morgan); drinking a G&T with Freeland Spirits Foraged Botanicals Gin.
    Damien is watching When Evil Lurks (2023; dir. Demián Rugna); drinking Puncher's Chance Bourbon.
    Ryan is watching Rust Creek (2018; dir. Jen McGowan); drinking a very terrible Strawberry Basil Bourbon Smash.

    If you liked this week’s story, read - or watch! - Starve Acre by Andrew Michael Hurley

    Up next: "Professor Jonkin's Cannibal Plant" by Howard R Garis.

    Special thank you to Dr Blake Brandes for our Whiskey and the Weird music!

    Like, rate, and follow! Check us out @whiskeyandtheweird on Instagram, Threads & Facebook, and at whiskeyandtheweird.com

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    1 hr and 5 mins