Ryan uses an ice ball, Jess commits micromurder, and Damien asks who's your Saxon? This, plus Spartacus, saying where you're from, and everyone's favorite profession - COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION - on today's spooky commute. Welcome to Whiskey and the Weird, a podcast exploring the British Library Tales of the Weird series! This season, we're pondering what could have been with our ninth book in the vast collection, Roads of Destiny: And Other Tales of Alternative Histories and Parallel Realms, edited by Alasdair Richmond. In this episode, our featured story is: Branch Line to Benceston by Sir Andrew Caldecott.

Holy living author, Batman! This week, the gang chats what else is a rose, the fine line between empowerment and obsession, horror that refuses to explain itself, and why the best beer names are meal-themed. Plus, adaptation what-ifs, the depth of fences, and fresh evidence that the creepiest things are usually hiding in plain sight! Welcome to Whiskey and the Weird, a podcast exploring the British Library Tales of the Weird series! This season, we're pondering what could have been with our ninth book in the vast collection, Roads of Destiny: And Other Tales of Alternative Histories and Parallel Realms, edited by Alasdair Richmond. In this episode, our featured story is: The Rose Wall by Joyce Carol Oates.

Pulitzer prize winning fiction, the return of the zeppelin, cats signaling the apocalypse, and Guses across the multiverse. Plus, aged watermelon Kölsches! Welcome to Whiskey and the Weird, a podcast exploring the British Library Tales of the Weird series! This season, we're pondering what could have been with our ninth book in the vast collection, Roads of Destiny: And Other Tales of Alternative Histories and Parallel Realms, edited by Alasdair Richmond. In this episode, our featured story is: "He Walked Around the Horses" by H. Beam Piper.

Ryan joins a throuple, Jess is seasonally inert, Damien goes gaga for what's in his glass, patent separators - defined, and Rambo's true first blood? All this, and the gang gets psychogeographic! Welcome to Whiskey and the Weird, a podcast exploring the British Library Tales of the Weird series! This season, we're pondering what could have been with our ninth book in the vast collection, Roads of Destiny: And Other Tales of Alternative Histories and Parallel Realms, edited by Alasdair Richmond. In this episode, our featured story is: The Bad Lands by John Metcalfe.

Damien drops cuckoo knowledge, Ryan gets a namesake nook and Jess drinks a bargain beer - and actually likes it! Plus, so many Willow references. Love you, Warwick D! Welcome to Whiskey and the Weird, a podcast exploring the British Library Tales of the Weird series! This season, we're pondering what could have been with our ninth book in the vast collection, Roads of Destiny: And Other Tales of Alternative Histories and Parallel Realms, edited by Alasdair Richmond. In this episode, our featured story is: Scarrowfell by Robert Holdstock.

A feminist classic, the hazards of letting doctors make all your life decisions, and a Finnish whiskey that apparently tastes like a campfire got put out with old person candy. Plus, genuinely alien aliens, literary reputation whiplash, and a reminder that the scariest rooms aren’t always the haunted ones. Welcome to Whiskey and the Weird, a podcast exploring the British Library Tales of the Weird series! This season, we're pondering what could have been with our ninth book in the vast collection, Roads of Destiny: And Other Tales of Alternative Histories and Parallel Realms, edited by Alasdair Richmond. In this episode, our featured story is: The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

Found-footage skate punks chasing cult documentaries, the financial death of novelty beer, luck vs fate, and why “big hat + short dude” apparently counts as historical expertise. Plus, a shocking amount of elevator-cam horror! Welcome to Whiskey and the Weird, a podcast exploring the British Library Tales of the Weird series! This season, we're pondering what could have been with our ninth book in the vast collection, Roads of Destiny: And Other Tales of Alternative Histories and Parallel Realms, edited by Alasdair Richmond. In this episode, our featured story is: The Curfew Tolls by Stephen Vincent Benet

Rating juggling, ennui overload, Jess gets obsessed with parallel realms, and Aaron Taylor Johnson? We're back on a boat and hunting for TREASURRRRRRRE!!!!! Welcome to Whiskey and the Weird, a podcast exploring the British Library Tales of the Weird series! This season, we're pondering what could have been with our ninth book in the vast collection, Roads of Destiny: And Other Tales of Alternative Histories and Parallel Realms, edited by Alasdair Richmond. In this episode, our featured story is: The Discovery of the Treasure Isles by Amelia B. Edwards.

Christoper Walken as a toaster, what not to name your kid, redefining weird across the multiverse, and how oysters affected Spanish colonization of the early Americas. Plus, not see bashing! (It's important.) Welcome to Whiskey and the Weird, a podcast exploring the British Library Tales of the Weird series! This season, we're pondering what could have been with our ninth book in the vast collection, Roads of Destiny: And Other Tales of Alternative Histories and Parallel Realms, edited by Alasdair Richmond. In this episode, our featured story is An Undistinguished Boy by Gerald Kersh.

Jess, Ryan and Damien kick off the ninth season chatting deep on pivotal moments in their lives, women in whiskey, and how to pronounce marquis. Oh, and an O. Henry story with terrible employees, arranged marriages, and something called Beautiful Hole. Welcome to Whiskey and the Weird, a podcast exploring the British Library Tales of the Weird series! This season, we're pondering what could have been with our ninth book in the vast collection, Roads of Destiny: And Other Tales of Alternative Histories and Parallel Realms, edited by Alasdair Richmond. In this episode, our featured story is: Roads of Destiny by O. Henry.