Episode 53 : Horns by Joe Hill

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Join Mike and Mike as they explore the true meaning of "putting a fork in it" with Joe Hill and his second novel Horns. Listen as they leave the tree house of Paradise and lose their innocence in this horror coming-of-age mystery play in book form.

Cocktail Time!

The Devil Made Me Do It

1 shot of 151 Rum

1 splash of high-grade hot sauce

A lime chunk

Combine in a shot glass, suck on a lime, and take it down—oh yeah.

End music: Sufijan Stevens's "In The Devils Territory" from his album "Seven Swans."

Fact Check: Pageant plays at http://www.theatrehistory.com/medieval/mysteries002.html

Clive Barker's play History of the Devil at http://www.clivebarker.info/playsindex.html

Episode 52: Danielle Trussoni's Angelology

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Are angels the new vampires? The Two Mikes discuss this and other matters of weighty theology in this latest episode.

And no, they are NOT the new vampires.


It's Cocktail Time! Bad-touched by an Angel

Place in the bottom of a Tom Collins glass:

• slice of ginger
• piece of lemon rind
• several dashes of Angostura bitters

Muddle thoroughly.

Pack glass with crushed ice and pour over it

• 1 shot of bourbon
• 1 shot Frangelico
• top with hard cider.

Garnish with lemon slice.
Drink through straw so you can stir up the goodies down below. Chin chin.

Special Closing Music: "Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground" by Raul Malo

Episode 51: Dracula Undead by Dacre Stoker w/Ian Holt

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You can't keep a good vamp down and that is the case in this sequel to Bram Stoker's original Dracula. His great-grandnephew keeps up the family tradition, and the Two Mike's enjoy participating in this unholy resurrection. Once you go Drac you never go back.

It IS Cocktail Time!

The Blood Countess

1.5 shots of Domaine de Canton

1 shot of Campari

1 shot Dry Vermouth

.5 shot of Gin

Mix and pour over ice. Garnish with candied ginger or orange wedge. Chin, chin.

Episode 50, Robert Silverberg's The Book of Skulls

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Mike S. convinced Mike M. to read with him a book he loved in high school. Always a risk, to reread something you loved as a kid, but we aren’t disappointed. We dig the grooviness of its early seventies scene and don’t even have to wonder if it is horror (it isn’t). It gives us lots to talk about: immortality, hot hairy lovin', kids these days, and so on.

It’s Cocktail Time!

The Skull beneath the Skin

½ oz each of gin, vodka, rum, and triple sec

¼ oz Rose’s lime juice

2 oz sour mix

1 oz blue agave syrup

Shake with ice and strain into martini glass; top with a splash of champagne.

Chin. And also chin.

Bonus link: Robert Silverberg's thoughts on his career in sleaze:

Closing music: “Live” by Emitt Rhodes, performed by the Bangles.