Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is watching The Assessment (2024, dir. Fleur Fortuné); drinking Evil Twin Brewing Pils: Dandies.
Damien is watching DTF St. Louis (2026; TV series); drinking Larceny Bourbon old fashioned with chipotle bitters.
Ryan is watching Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2026; dir. Lee Cronin); drinking Campbeltown Journey whisky.

If you liked this week’s story, read  Voice of the Fire by Alan Moore.

Up next: "The Badlands" by John Metcalfe

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Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is reading Baldwin: a Love Story by Nicholas Boggs; drinking Freeland Spirits Rye.
Damien is watching Mother of Flies (2025; dir. Adams Family); drinking Kyrö Wood Smoke Whisky.
Ryan is reading Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky; drinking Ardbeg Uigeadail.

If you liked this week’s story, read  Lakewood by Megan Giddings.

Up next: "Scarrowfell" by Robert Holdstock

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Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is watching The Household (2025; dir. Luke Shaw); drinking Meier's Creek Backwoods Trail.
Damien is watching Super Dark Times (2017; dir. Kevin Phillips) & Soft & Quiet (2022; dir. Beth de Araujo); drinking Hai Seas San Oaks Whiskey.
Ryan is watching Civil War (2024, dir. Alex Garland); drinking Tullibardine 15.

If you liked this week’s story, read  Famous Men Who Never Lived by K. Chess.

Up next: "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is reading Turtle Island by Sean Sherman; drinking Bodalen Bourbon by Far North Spirits.
Damien is watching The Toxic Avenger (2025; dir. Macon Blair); drinking Mary Dowling Bourbon.
Ryan is reading If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio; drinking Woodford Reserve Rye Old Fashioned.

If you liked this week’s story, read  Robert E. Howard's Conan stories: Xuthal of the Dusk, The Iron Shadows of the Moon, and Queen of the Black Coast. Or Lady Eleanor Smith's No Ships Pass (featured in WatW: S1E4).

Interested in reading Mrs Roliston's Travelling Adventures by Amelia B Edwards? Find it here: https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/80e3bb63-79f3-4505-9c4c-be8cd3d02ff0/

Up next: "The Curfew Tolls" by Stephen Vincent Benet

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Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is watching Repeat (2021, dir. Richard Miller & Grant Archer); drinking Hudson Whiskey Do The Rye Thing.
Damien is reading Breathe In, Bleed Out by Brian McAuley & Haunted Forest Tour by Jeff Strand and James A. Moore; drinking a Natasha's Pulverized Paste (Elijah Craig whiskey sour with apple and ginger).
Ryan is watching "Wayward" (Netflix, 2025); drinking the Glenlivet 14 Cognac Cask.

If you liked this week’s story, read The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick

Up next: "The Discovery of the Treasure Isles" by Amelia B Edwards.

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Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is reading Salt Slow by Julia Armfield; drinking Uncle Nearest 1884.
Damien is watching Marshmallow (2025; dir. Daniel DelPurgatorio); drinking Mary Dowling bourbon.
Ryan is reading Yeehaw Junction by Kayli Scholz; drinking the Aberlour 12.

If you liked this week’s story, read The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges.

Up next: "An Undistinguished Boy" by Gerald Kersh.

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Bar Talk (our recommendations):
Jessica is watching Arctic Void (2022; dir. Darren R. Mann); drinking almond nog + Bright Lights, Big Bourbon.
Damien is watching Good Boy (2025; dir. Ben Leonberg); drinking a Bhakta 1928.
Ryan is watching Shrinking (Apple TV original series); drinking a Gingerbread fartini (vanilla vodka, Frangelico, Bailey's, gingerbread syrup).

If you liked this week’s story, watch Head Count (2018; dir. Elle Callahan)

Up next: Damn the fates, it's Season 9!

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 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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