The Short Horror Beer Cast
Violating your earholes while pairing pints with classic horror, GenX style. Paul and Alec drink in the work of literary masters amidst collapsing scenery and pop culture digressions. Open all hours. www.shbeercast.com
Episodes
Season Three opens with a delightful little yarn by the one and only Harlan Ellison. Grab a beer and snuggle with your favorite AI chatbot girlfriend while you listen!
Spoilers ahead, so read the story first if you feel it'll do you some good.
Story Info
- Title: "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream"
- Author: Harlan Ellison
- Originally Published: If, March 1967
Beer Pairing
- Alec's choice: Three Floyds Brewing,...
We're back and not a moment too soon with the sequel to The Events at Poroth Farm by T.E.D. Klein, the scariest cat horror story since Garfield met the ghost pirates! It's an action-packed cap to Season Two and we couldn't be more out of ideas!
Spoilers ahead, so read the story first if you feel it'll do you some good.
Also, be sure to check out Part I!
Story Info
- Title: "The Events at Poroth Farm"
- Auth...
This week on The Short Horror Beer Cast, it's a cat-lovers nightmare as we settle down for a bug-infested summer with "The Events at Poroth Farm", by T.E.D. Klein.
Spoilers ahead, so read the story first if that chills your wort.
Story Info
- Title: "The Events at Poroth Farm"
- Author: T.E.D. Klein
- Originally Published: From Beyond the Dark Gateway , December 1972
Beer Pairing
- Alec's choice: Short...
This week on The Short Horror Beer Cast, we’re getting rodential with a little known up-and-coming writer by the name of Stephen King. We expect great things from this kid!
Spoilers ahead, so read the story first if it'll blow your skirt up.
Story Info
- Title: "Graveyard Shift"
- Author: Stephen King
- Originally Published: Cavalier, October 1970
Beer Pairing
- Alec's choice: Narragansett Brewing Co, The Famous ...
This week on The Short Horror Beer Cast, we’re rockin’ with Richard Matheson’s kooky, kwazy dystopian world of happy fun times!
Spoilers ahead, so read the story first if you're precious like that.
Story Info
- Title: "Dance of the Dead"
- Author: Richard Matheson
- Originally Published: Star Science Fiction Stories No. 3, 1955
Beer Pairing
- Alec's choice: 3 Floyds Brewing, Zombie Dust
- Paul's choice: False Ho...
This week on The Short Horror Beer Cast, we’re diggin’ on Dog. That’s right, it’s Ray Bradbury again, wagging a tail—er, uh—weaving a tale of terror.
Spoilers ahead, so read the story first if you're precious like that.
Story Info
- Title: "The Emissary"
- Author: Ray Bradbury
- Originally Published: Dark Carnival, 1947 (re-published as The October Country)
- Get it here: https://a.co/d/cqO8n7R
Beer Pairing
In this bonus mini-ep, we dive into our dusty dictionaries to dig on some of our favorite words that have fallen out of fashion. Paleologisms, if you will. (And we know you will.) Some words are due for a comeback, and today they’re getting their shot!
Theme song: “Afterparty”, by Paul Lorello, performed by Sid Seizure and the Conniption
Edited by Alec Chambers
Produced by Sid Seizure
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This week on The Short Horror Beer Cast, we’re gettin diggy wit it once again with "Free Dirt"—Bradbury style, baby!
Spoilers ahead, so read the story first if you're precious like that.
Story Info
- Title: "Free Dirt"
- Author: Ray Bradbury
- Originally Published: Quicker Than the Eye, 1996
- Get it here: https://a.co/d/cqO8n7R
Beer Pairing
- Alec's choice: Founders Brewing Co., Mortal Bloom
- Paul's ch...
This week on The Short Horror Beer Cast, we’re cracking open “Free Dirt” by Charles Beaumont and pairing it with two beers that go down smoother than a buttered gerbil.
This is Part 1 of a two-parter! Sort of. We’ll explain when you get here.
Till then, you can expect our usual mix of literary over-analysis, pop culture nerdery, and tangents about [insert Gen-X grievance].
Spoilers ahead, so read the story first if you're preci...
Today we look at Poe’s masterpiece of mesmeric, macabre, malodorous morbidity while masticating malt from murky mugs!
Also, Irish antics! Swooning students! And how we nearly inhaled ourselves into early graves!
The Beers
* Paul’s choice: Aurora Brewing Company, Fresh to Death
* Alec’s choice: Dragonmead Brewery, Final Absolution
The Book
* The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
The Music
* Iron Cthulhu Apocalypse (Dig his stuff...
Welcome to the afterparty! In this follow-up to Episode 10, we bring you the darkest music we could think of in a moment’s notice without pre-thought, forethought, or intuition of any kind.
Nevertheless, you’ll love what we chose:
* S. Prokofiev, Montagues and Capulets
* The Talking Heads, The Overload
* The Keith Jarrett Trio, My Back Pages
Plus, EGOISTE!
Theme ...
Grandpa Lovecraft is back with another delightful tale. Fill yer tub with ice and crack open a cold one. Doctor’s orders. We’re gettin shiv’ry wittit.
Also, Surströmming! Paul gets another bad taste in his mouth! And Alec becomes a keyboard warrior!
The Beers
Paul’s choice: Freigeist Bierkultur, Smoke and Ice Sixpoint Brewery, The Crisp
Alec’s choice: Arbor Brewing Company, Cold Excursion IPA
The Book
We kick off Season Two with everyone's favorite racist uncle, H.P. Lovecraft!
Join us as we witness our poor narrator endure the worst soundtrack since Moulin Rouge. Get a front row seat to Erich Zann's All-Star Celebrity Hootenanny!
Also, the plausibility of ghosts! Keith Emerson's Moog! And Paul offends 15,448 people in a single rant!
The Beer
* Paul’s choice:
* Twin Fork Beer Co., Crescendo
* Alec’s choice:
Greetings, mofos!
So here’s the deal. Season 1 was a test run to see if we could actually do this thing. Turns out, we sorta can. At any rate, we're having fun, and that's all that counts. (That's not all that counts.)
This season, Season 2, is actually our first real season, the one where we finally figured stuff out. But to avoid the crises of schemata that will inevitably result from renaming all of Season 1's...
NOTE TO SUBSCRIBERS: This is a toned-down, less special-effecty version of the show we uploaded as a treat on New Year’s Eve. That glitzier edit was a one-time dealio, you see. But the show’s more or less the same. If you listened to it already, we hope you liked it and urge you to listen again. And bring a friend. And take notes this time. What the hell are we paying you for, anyway?
Enjoy!
Ever find yourself alone in a cabin with ...
Ah, ‘tis the season of warmth, of joy, of strict atomization of humbug, of all things wintery and blazing with good humor, benevolence, comfort, and extreme pessimism regarding the futility of all human existence…
Yes, we're covering the king of bad tidings, Thomas Ligotti, by discussing his masterpiece of unnerving horror, "The Frolic."
Also, terrible Christmas gifts! Alec meets the Night Hag! Paulie Wren's Chris...
We’re back with a banger by F. Paul Wilson.
Join us at the end of the world with the most hideous disease to befall humankind since ABBA.
Plus, rats! Paul Newman! Mutant bunnies! And more!
Make no bones about it, this one’ll get under your skin.
The Beer
* Paul’s choice: Unibroue, La Fin Du Monde
* Alec’s choice: Short’s Brewing Company, Soft Parade Founder’s Brewing Company, All Day IPA
The Book
* Masques, J.N. Willamson, ed.
The Music
Hop on over and settle in for a night of batrachian terror! It’s anthropologist Loren Eiseley’s masterful foray into fiction, or so we’re inclined to believe. We took a leap with this one, dissecting something toadily new, warts and all.
Also, more impressions! How to pronounce “Schuykill”! And we unveil the catchy new jingle: “Is it Horror?”
Enjoy!
The Beer
* Paul’s choice: First State Brewing Co, Cosmic Imbalance
* Alec’s choice: Arb...
Uhhhhh, today we're, eh-huh, going Down There, hhhuh-huh, huh-huh…
Ramsey Campbell leads us into the depths of a certain office building and the horrors that lie within.
Also, Anglophilia, more sucking sounds, Paul's very weird obsession, and more!
Keep your area clean and join us for some workplace thrills!
The Beer
* Paul’s choice: Samuel Smith’s Nut Brown Ale
* Alec’s choice: Dark Horse Brewing Co, Smells Like a Safety Mee...
Join us as we gaze into The Jar, by the one and only Ray Bradbury!
Plus, swamp sounds, a 1940s alert, more podcast spinoff ideas, and fair to middling impressions!
You really don't want to miss this one.
The Beer
* Paul’s choice: Sierra Nevada Brewing Co, Hazy Little Thing (served in a mason jar)
* Alec’s choice: North Peak Brewing Co, Dauntless Oktoberfest Lager
The Book
* Ray Bradbury
The Music
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