Whiskey and the Weird Damien Smith, Jessica Berg, Ryan Whitley

We wrap up our season covering The Night Wire and Other Tales of Weird Media by interviewing the volume's editor, Aaron Worth. S5 throwbacks, library hacking, and mountains of cocaine – this one's got 'em all!

Welcome to Whiskey and the Weird, a podcast exploring the British Library Tales of the Weird series! This season, we're transmitting our sixth book in the collection, ‘The Night Wire: And Other Tales of Weird Media,’ edited by Aaron Worth.

Ryan haunts a fishfinder, Jess still tries to make it about capitalism, and why a creeping mist is always the creepingest. Plus, a parallel dimension or just Canada? It's our last story this season, and it's totally titular!

Welcome to Whiskey and the Weird, a podcast exploring the British Library Tales of the Weird series! This season, we're transmitting our sixth book in the collection, ‘The Night Wire: And Other Tales of Weird Media,’ edited by Aaron Worth. In this episode, our featured story is: The Night Wire by H.F. Arnold.

It's our first album recommendation in Bar Talk (and it's a doozy), TV shows we'd haunt, the ill-fated history of family supper, and best of all – John Ritter gets a shout! Know who doesn't? Will Smith.

Welcome to Whiskey and the Weird, a podcast exploring the British Library Tales of the Weird series! This season, we're transmitting our sixth book in the collection, ‘The Night Wire: And Other Tales of Weird Media,’ edited by Aaron Worth. In this episode, our featured story is: Uncle Phil on TV by J.B. Priestley.

Predicting the future of technology, films with a high body count, the surveillance state, and the world's smallest water decanter (aka a glass, Ryan; stop playing) - it's all in this week's ep covering a Christopher Nolan wannabe!

Welcome to Whiskey and the Weird, a podcast exploring the British Library Tales of the Weird series! This season, we're transmitting our sixth book in the collection, ‘The Night Wire: And Other Tales of Weird Media,’ edited by Aaron Worth. In this episode, our featured story is: The Eidoloscope by Robert Duncan Milne.

Jess goes gamer with bird solitaire, gets a new ice cube tray, and suffers from ham rage! Ryan and Damien are here, too, but it's really the Jess Show. Plus, lead poisoning?!

Welcome to Whiskey and the Weird, a podcast exploring the British Library Tales of the Weird series! This season, we're transmitting our sixth book in the collection, ‘The Night Wire: And Other Tales of Weird Media,’ edited by Aaron Worth. In this episode, our featured story is: The Wind in the Woods by Bessie Kyffin-Taylor.

Tonight's tale is "an uncomplicated story told confusingly" according to one host, before being given their lowest rating ever. Brutal! Also, unbridled misogyny via typewriter, other haunted devices in contemporary horror, and approximately 42 regional accents... in the intro alone.

Welcome to Whiskey and the Weird, a podcast exploring the British Library Tales of the Weird series! This season, we're transmitting our sixth book in the collection, ‘The Night Wire: And Other Tales of Weird Media,’ edited by Aaron Worth. In this episode, our featured story is: Poor Lucy Rivers by Bernard Capes.