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 Hope Brewing, Negative Outlook

In this episode

• More impressions!
• Alec’s war story!
• We talk shit about Stephen King!

Links & Follow Us

• Website: shbeercast.com
• Instagram: @shorthorrorbeercast
• Facebook: The Short Horror Beer Cast

Credits

• Theme music: "Beer Cast Boogie" by Paul Lorello, performed by Sid Seizure and the Conniption
• Ambient music: Iron Cthulhu Apocalypse
• Dig his stuff on YouTube
• Edited by Paul Lorello

Produced by Sid Seizure

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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

• Alec's choice: New Holland Brewing, The Poet
• Paul's choice: Hair of the Dog Brewery, Fred

In this episode

• Feline shenanigans!
• Ray Bradbury issues a restraining order against Alec!
• Steve Martin, Gilbert Gottfried, Lemmy, and other horror fiction luminaries!

Links & Follow Us

• Website: shbeercast.com
• Instagram: @shorthorrorbeercast
• Facebook: The Short Horror Beer Cast

Credits

• Theme music: "Beer Cast Boogie" by Paul Lorello, performed by Sid Seizure and the Conniption
• Ambient music: Iron Cthulhu Apocalypse
• Dig his stuff on YouTube
• Edited by Paul Lorello

Produced by Sid Seizure

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 choice: Flying Dog, Dogtoberfest

What We Talk About

• Paul nails his beer AND his lines!
• Alec tries his hand at a Bradbury impression!
• Autumn love!

Links & Follow Us

• Website: shbeercast.com
• Instagram: @shorthorrorbeercast
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Credits

• Theme music: "Beer Cast Boogie" by Paul Lorello, performed by Sid Seizure and the Conniption
• Editing by Alec Chambers

Produced by Sid Seizure

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 precious like that.

Story Info

* Title: "Free Dirt"

* Author: Charles Beaumont

* Originally Published: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1955

* Read it here: https://a.co/d/9oGzdrm

Beer Pairing

* Alec’s Choice: New Holland Brewing Company, Full Circle

* Paul’s Choice: Abomination Brewing Company, Autumnal Harvester

In Today’s Episode

* Introducing The Short Horror Beer Cast drinking game!

* Paul nails his lines like a pro!

* Lots of fruits and veg!

* Umami!

* Alec tells a heartwarming tale of determination and overcoming adversity!

Links & Follow Us

* Website: shbeercast.com

* Instagram: @paullorello_writer (official SHBC insta coming soon!)

* Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ShortHorrorBeerCast/

Credits

* Theme music: “Beer Cast Boogie”, by Paul Lorello, performed by Sid Seizure and the Conniption

* Edited by Alec Chambers

Produced by Sid Seizure

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 on YouTube)

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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

* Johnny Cash, Hurt

* The Beach Boys, ‘Til I Die

* The Talking Heads, The Overload

* Nina Simone, Strange Fruit

* The Keith Jarrett Trio, My Back Pages

Plus, EGOISTE!

Theme song: “Afterparty”, by Paul Lorello, performed by Sid Seizure and the Conniption

Produced by Sid Seizure

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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

* The H. P. Lovecraft Collection: Deluxe 6-Book Hardcover Boxed Set, H.P. Lovecraft, Arcturus Collector’s Classics

The Music

* Jason Dennie

* Iron Cthulhu Apocalypse (Dig his stuff on YouTube)

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* Paul Lorello

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