S9E4: The Curfew Tolls by Stephen Vincent Benet

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