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Join the Two Mikes and a little  Linda as they investigate the supernatural in F. G. Cottam's The Fourth Haunting. Is that a ghost in your in your pocket or are you just trying to get me to join a super evil, dark magic, sinister sex cult?

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 GHOST GIN ( and tonic)

2  shots Blue Gin

Tonic

Get a tall glass, ice  ... come on, you know how to make a G & T.

Let's tonsure our hair, put on the scratchy robes and make the vows with The Two Mikes and Matthew Lewis in The Monk.  Celibacy is not all that is cracked up to be, so throw in a little Lucifer, a smidge of witchcraft and a pinch of lust and you got yourself one hell of a gothic tale. 

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The Bleeding Nun

You are going to layer these liquors.  

Hint: Put the bottle of booze in the fridge before you attempt this.

In a shot glass, pour in a half shot of Kahlua and on the back of a spoon pour in a half shot of Rumchata and then a trickle of Kinky Red.  Shoot it!

Chin Chin.

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Two Mikes learn all about Adult Vampring in Clare Kohda's Woman, Eating.   Sometimes you gotta pay your dues and sometimes you  just gotta drain the blood out of your intern supervisor.

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Hallucinogenic Milk

1 shot Pernod

Juice of 1/2 lemon

A teaspoon of powdered sugar, or sugar substitute

Shake with ice, pour into a glass, ice and all, and top with club soda.

Chin, chin.  

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In which the Mikes realize they're reading the same book at the same time and decide to record their thoughts, with no regard to what they're really supposed to be reading, which is Claire Kohda's Woman, Eating. 

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The Black Death

2 oz black vodka

3 oz limoncello

1 oz club soda

stir with ice and garnish with a lemon (or a dead rat)

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Pack up you belongings and quickly relocate with the Two Mikes and William Hallahan and his 70s horror novel The Search For Joseph Tully.   Maybe you'll find a new apartment or maybe you'll just loose your head.  That's one way to enforce rent control. 

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The Wrecking Ball

In a shaker of ice pour:

1 ounce Gin

1 ounce Rum

1 ounce Tequila

1 ounce Triple Sec

1 ounce Vodka

Shake for longer than you'd think and pour into a martini glass or serve over ice. Garnish with lemon or orange peel.  Stay home for the evening.

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Are you there God? It is us, The Two Mikes and Christopher Buehlman's Between Two Fires.  Listen as we journey through a plague ridden world devoid of compassion, and goodness and replete with superstition and horror. Here is where the leaders are most likely the actual spawn of hell.  No, it does not take place in 2022.

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Arrow in the Tongue

For 15 minutes, gently warm a quarter cup of cream or half and half, with either a Ghost Pepper or a Scotch Bonnett.  Let this cool.

In a rocks glass filled with ice combine:

1  shot of the infused cream

1 shot of Kahlua

1 shot of Cream de Cacao

Stir and garnish with a sliver of the hot pepper skewered by a cocktail sword.

Chin Chin.

• Perk some crappy hospital coffee (not the goods stuff).
• Pour into a diner-style mug, leave an inch of space
• Float shot of James Dickel bourbon
• a shot or two of half-and-half
• shot of Kahlua

Continue your studies abroad with the Mikes and Simon Raven's Doctors Wear Scarlet.  Will you graduate Summa Cum Laude? You will if you're a nasty young chap who get's his kicks from having his neck gnawed on.   

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Tbe Dick Fountain Cocktail

1 ounce anise flavored liquor

1/2  ounce simple syrup

1/2 ounce fresh lemon juice

one egg white 

Put everything in a shaker of ice, sans egg white. Shake well.  Now add the egg white and shake well. Pour into glass with the ice or strain into a martini glass. Chin chin.

  

Join The Two Mikes but quietly tip toe backwards as they come upon a herd of ghostly elk in Stephan Graham Jones's horror novel  The Only Good Indians.  You can run but the Elk Head Woman will find you and she's going to want to play a mean game of H-O-R-S-E.

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The Elks Club  ( yes, there is no apostrophe)

1/4 ounce dry vermouth

2  ounces SoCo

Dash bitters

Maraschino Cherry to garnish.

Directions: Shack in an ice filled shaker.  Pour into a high ball glass or strain into a martini glass.