
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.
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Episodes
23 episodes
Ep. 20: I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison - Part I
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 ...
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Season 3
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47:31

Ep. 19: The Events at Poroth Farm by T.E.D. Klein - Part II
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!...
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Season 2
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1:08:45

Ep. 18: The Events at Poroth Farm by T.E.D. Klein - Part I
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 ...
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Season 2
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1:10:51

Ep. 17: Graveyard Shift by Stephen King
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
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Season 2
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1:05:27

Ep. 16: Dance of the Dead by Richard Matheson
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 preciou...
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Season 2
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50:55

Ep. 15: The Emissary by Ray Bradbury
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 ...
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Season 2
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48:33

BONUS EPISODE: The Lost Words
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 the...
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Season 2
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25:16

Ep. 14: Free Dirt by Ray Bradbury
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
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Season 2
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44:07

Ep. 13: Free Dirt by Charles Beaumont
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...
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Season 2
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49:33

Ep. 12: The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe
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...
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Season 2
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45:08

BONUS EPISODE: Our Favorite Dark Music
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:
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Season 2
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30:21

Ep. 11: Cool Air by H.P. Lovecraft
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 ...
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Season 2
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41:52

Ep. 10: The Music of Erich Zann by H.P. Lovecraft
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!<...
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Season 2
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58:21

TRAILER: It's The Short Horror Beer Cast... Season TWO!
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,...
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Season 2
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2:59

Ep. 8: The Boarded Window by Ambrose Bierce
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 alr...
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Season 1
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43:27

BONUS EPISODE: A Very Special Beer Cast Christmas
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 ...
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Season 1
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1:06:05

Ep. 7: Soft by F. Paul Wilson
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, t...
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Season 1
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53:14

Ep. 6: Dance of the Frogs by Loren Eiseley
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. <...
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Season 1
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43:30

Ep. 5: Down There by Ramsey Campbell
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, P...
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Season 1
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50:20

Ep. 4: The Jar by Ray Bradbury
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 ...
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Season 1
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50:49

Ep. 3: Fritzchen by Charles Beaumont
Wake up and smell the hamster cage, because today we're heading to the pet shop for "Fritzchen," a creepy little weird tale by Charles Beaumont, featuring a truly bizarro creature and a psychopathic monster of a child. Fun for some of the whole...
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Season 1
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32:52
