Val's latest Creepy Cocktail Hour is now up over on our Patreon! In TWO parts because reasons. 🥴
Anyway - Join us on Patreon and enjoy!
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Prohibition history nerds unite! Today we chat over a Bobby Burns cocktail + a little discussion of the timeline of Prohibition and a brief history dive of the time period and cocktails. Then we do some chatter of things to come in our little community. Cheers and Happy Friday the 13th! 🖤
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Resources for this chat:
https://eu.flaviar.com/blogs/flaviar-times/bourbon-distilleries-spooky-storiesÂ
https://umamigirl.com/last-word-cocktail/Â
https://www.foodandwine.com/best-scotch-whisky-cocktails-11900574Â
https://www.fjc.gov/history/exhibits/prohibition-in-federal-courts-timeline  Â
https://www.britannica.com/event/Prohibition-United-States-history-1920-1933Â Â
https://prohibition.themobmuseum.org/the-history/prohibition-potpourri/did-you-know/Â Â Â
It's our final Creepy Cocktail Hour of 2025! Let's toast and talk about spooky winter holiday folklore whilst Val pulls together a modification on a classic Gold Rush by incorporating Tequila! Cheers!Â
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Join us in our latest Creepy Cocktail Hour where we make something called a Sister Midnight and discuss some of the most cursed and/or haunted film sets of Hollywood!
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Resources for this chat:
https://crimereads.com/most-haunted-movies-in-hollywood-history/Â
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/wes-craven-screenwriter-basically-went-mad-after-being-cursed/Â
https://www.danielzajic.com/cocktails/sister-midnight?rq=sister%20midnightÂ
We're celebrated 10 months worth of creepy cocktail hours with a watch party for 1995's Copycat!Â
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We're gathering for the latest creepy cocktail hour and sipping Earl Grey martinis why we discuss deadly Victorian wallpaper!
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Resources for this chat include:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/victorian-wallpaper-got-its-gaudy-colors-poison-180962709/Â
https://www.slam.org/blog/arsenic-in-victorian-wallpaper/Â
https://www.vogue.com/article/arsenic-wallpaper-bitten-by-witch-fever-bookÂ
https://www.liquor.com/recipes/earl-grey-marteani/Â
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/10/the-era-when-poison-was-everywhere/503654/Â
On this one, Val does a little show and tell of some of her cemetery photography and we go on a tour of Bagdad Cemetery of Williamson County here in Texas -- a special place featured in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre!
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Resources for this chat include:
In today's Creepy Cocktail hour, Valerie does some experimenting with the IT martinis of this summer (various brines and a helpful discussion of how to approach the tomato martini of this summer season!) and then we dive into some covering of death photography (memento mori) of the Victorian era! Â
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Resources for this chat include:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-36389581Â Â
https://allthatsinteresting.com/victorian-death-photos Â
https://www.notesfromthefrontier.com/post/death-photographyÂ
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLiYMNDSu-O/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==Â
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJmcze0N2LS/?igsh=NzBsd3MwZHhkM2w2Â
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLiBD0wRkCi/?igsh=dzVrdzd4M3ZzZzNhÂ
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMIf_OZRKwe/?igsh=MTdnOWE2NnkxZ2t1OA==Â
Join Val today for our sixth Creepy Cocktail Hour!
We're keeping this one simple with a celebration of water horror, or: horror stories set at sea!
We're also discussing Basil Margaritas and fun ways to do summer infusions this season.
Join our Patreon to catch up here and never miss a monthly session -- Cheers!Â
Resources for this chat include:
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls099527452/Â
https://ew.com/movies/best-aquatic-horror-movies/Â
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2025/06/jaws-anniversary-book-movie/683305/Â
Join Summer Child Val to kick off the season with a talk around one of her favorite horror avenues: Summer Camp Horror!
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Resources for this chat:Â
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/summer-camp-horror-movies Â
https://www.cbr.com/best-summer-slasher-films-not-friday-the-13th/Â Â
https://screencraft.org/blog/why-are-there-so-many-summer-camp-horror-movies/Â Â
Cocktail: https://imbibemagazine.com/recipe/golden-ghost-bijou-cocktail-riff/Â
Gather round ye hearth because for our fourth creepy cocktail hour, we did a little dive into the moment vampires in horror cinema are having and how much we're here for it!
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Resources for this chat include:
https://youtu.be/gry3H_28_Zc?si=fuzP83LqWnWloLgVÂ
https://screenrant.com/vampire-movies-box-office-resurgence-sinners-nosferatu-explainer/Â
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-04-26/sinners-movie-vampires-free-speech-politicsÂ
In our third creepy cocktail hour, Val does a mini-dive on death practices, a brief history of caskets and of course, the fun of embalming + her favorite mortician (and everybody should have one). Oh and old fashioneds, baby!Â
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Resources for this chat:Â
https://student-journals.ucl.ac.uk/pia/article/93/galley/135/view/
https://www.assemblymag.com/articles/87043-the-history-of-caskets
https://www.funeralbasics.org/the-strange-unusual-history-of-embalming/#:~:text=Originating%20with%20the%20Egyptians%20around,produced%20hundreds%20of%20anatomical%20plates.
https://bartonfuneral.com/funeral-basics/history-of-embalming/
Photo credit - Remezcla
Join us over on Patreon and get caught up on our February Creepy Cocktail Hour where we talked about The Legend of El Sombrerón!
Catch up here and never miss a monthly session -- Cheers!Â
Resources for this chat:Â
https://remezcla.com/culture/el-sombreron-que-horror-halloween-guatemala/Â Â
https://www.abctales.com/story/well-wisher/el-sombreron-based-upon-guatemalan-folktaleÂ
https://utrgv.libguides.com/legends/duendes#:~:text=Summary,Goya%20for%20release%20in%201799Â
https://youtu.be/4kaXypwdcfY?si=FRe64pk5i7dI-lf5Â
https://www.bonappetit.com/story/pickle-martini-recipe Â
https://interminablerambling.com/2023/10/05/banned-books-week-ashley-hope-perezs-out-of-darkness/Â
In our first EVER livestream, Val talks real life creepy hotels here in Texas (perfect as it relates to our recent book club episode!) and manages to talk about how tragic it would be to have a spill on camera while she whips up a cocktail... then promptly has said spill occur on camera. Perfectly rehearsed! 🥴
Youtube link of a brief interview with Professor Bowles: https://youtu.be/kHx7ODZcegU?si=H7V0x3tZxwgscW58Â Â
Other resources:Â
https://www.valleycentral.com/news/local-news/brownsville-a-place-of-forgotten-secrets/Â Â
https://texascooppower.com/ghosts-history-and-legends/Â
Ghosts of the Rio Grande Valley by David Bowles / Haunted America / The History Press / September 2016