Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is bingeing all 14 seasons of King of the Hill; drinking Burnside Bourbon.
Damien is reading Wake Up and Open Your Eyes by Clay McLeod Chapman; drinking a legit painkiller with Pussers Rum (orange, pineapple, cream of coconut, nutmeg).
Ryan is reading  Ghostland by Edward Parnell; drinking a Lagavulin 16.

If you liked this week’s story, read Gothic by Philip Fracassi.

Up next: Damn the fates, it's Season 9! And a merry little bonus episode interlude...

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Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is reading Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir; drinking Freeland Spirits Bourbon.
Damien is watching Freaky Tales (2024; dir. Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck); drinking a Hibiki Japanese Harmony.
Ryan is reading  A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck; drinking a Highland Park 12.

If you liked this week’s story, watch Black Box (2020; dir. Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour).

Up next: "The Stalls of the Barchester Cathedral" by the inimitable M. R. James

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Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is reading The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah by Stephen King; drinking Free Spirits 'The Spirit of Bourbon'.
Damien is reading Rejection: Fiction by Tony Tulathimutte; drinking a Boulevardier (Larceny bourbon, Campari, sweet vermouth).
Ryan is reading  Long Division: Stories of Social Decay, Societal Collapse and Bad Manners, edited by Doug Murano and Michael Bailey; drinking a Glenlivet 14.

If you liked this week’s story, read the interconnected short stories of the Dandridge Cycle by Caitlin R Kiernan.

Up next: "The Face of the Monk" by Robert Hichens

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Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is watching They Cloned Tyrone (2023; dir Juel Taylor); drinking a Ghia Ginger Spritz.
Damien is watching Strange Darling (2024; dir. J.T. Mollner); drinking a Glenmorangie 12.
Ryan is play Blue Prince (VG; 2025) ; drinking a Glenlivet Caribbean Cask.

If you liked this week’s story, watch Presence (2024; dir. Steven Soderbergh)

Up next: "The Duchess at Prayer" by Edith Wharton

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Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is reading A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by C.A. Fletchere; drinking a Blind Tiger's Bees Knees.
Damien is reading The Haar by David Sodergren; drinking a Larceny bourbon whiskey.
Ryan is watching "Adolescence" (Netflix); drinking and Old Forester 86.

If you liked this week’s story, watch Black Swan (2010; dir. Darren Aronofsky)

Up next: "An Evicted Spirit" by Marguerite Merington

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Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is reading Where Furnaces Burn by Joel Lane; drinking a canned Spiritless Old Fashioned.
Damien is reading Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones; drinking a Redbreast 15 Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey.
Ryan is reading Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian; drinking the Lagavuhlin 16 yr old.

If you liked this week’s story, watch The Forest (2016; dir. Jason Zada)

Up next: "A Story Told In Church" by Ada Buisson

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Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is reading Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo; drinking Heck's Gentle Persuasion Golden NA.
Damien is watching Daddy's Head (2024; dir. Benjamin Barfoot); drinking a Flying Naked (bourbon, Bénédictine, Aperol, lemon juice).
Ryan is reading Aurora Rising by Alastair Reynolds; drinking Highland Park 12 yr 'Viking Honour'.

If you liked this week’s story, read "Procession of the Black Sloth" by Laird Barron

Up next: "The Sexton's Adventuret" by Sheridan Le Fanu

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Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is watching Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor (2023; dir. Stephen Cognetti); drinking Sloop Brewing Oktoberfest.
Damien is watching Bring Her Back (2025; dir. Phillipou Brothers); drinking a Painkiller with Pussers Rum (orange, pineapple, cream of coconut, nutmeg).
Ryan is reading "Lot No. 249" by Arthur Conan Doyle; drinking the Bowmore 15.

If you liked this week’s story, read Night Film by Marisha Pessl.

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