Tonight’s paring is brought to you by Egeus Press and a delicious craft beer from Big Muddy Beer. We have a – limited first edition – collection of short horrors, “Murder Ballads” to read while we sip on some smore and stout.

A collection of seventeen dark tales & novellas, in which some of today’s finest weird story writers provide previously unpublished work inspired by traditional murder ballads. The results are sometimes enigmatic, sometimes witty, sometimes desperately grim; just like the songs they often appear to belong outside – either before or after – recorded time, in some malleable epoch of blood-drenched mythology. They channel not only these ballads, but also that certain brand of outmoded publication which once revelled so joyfully in all manner of luridnes.