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
• Facebook: The Short Horror Beer Cast

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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* Alec Chambers

* Paul Lorello

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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!

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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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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:

* Griffin Claw Brewing Company, Sin Repent Repeat Pączki Stout

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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* Alec Chambers

* Paul Lorello

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 episodes to something like Season Naught Point One, Two, Three, etc., we're forging ahead and merely regarding Season 1 as our troubled firstborn whom we love but don't take out in public much for fear he'll scare small dogs.

Therefore we ask you to join us March 25, 2025, as we kick off Season 2 with a couple of tasty beverages and discuss "The Music of Erich Zann" by H.P. Lovecraft!

See you soon,

Paul and Alec