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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

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

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