wanted to share a new book with you which will make a wonderful addition to our Mother’s Day Gift Guide. The new book is called The Turn of the Screwdriver: 50 Dark and Twisted Literary Cocktails Inspired by Anne Rice, Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, and Other Legendary Gothic Authors! Written by Iphigenia Jones (Author). I received a copy of this Cocktail/ Cookbook in exchange for this review. Inside this post is my affiliate links. If you click on the links and make a purchase I will make a small percentage from the items you purchase.
First and foremost The Turn of the Screwdriver would have been better at Halloween because it contains 50 Dark & Twisted Literary Cocktails inspired by Anne Rice, Mary Shelly and Edgar Allen Poe and Other Legendary Gothic Authors. If your a avid reader like I am or a Mixologist I could see you using the book year round.
I like to shake things up so why not use this book during Mother’s Day to creep your girlfriends out? Because people go Gothic all year long don’t they? Charlie looked at the book sitting on my desk and let me know he liked the Skeleton on the cover of the book.
I liked the purple binding they used to bind the book. David liked the drink on the cover of the book with Olives that look like you could reach out and grab them for a quick snack. Would you like one of the Olives? There is enough to share. Hurry and get them because I want to get a drink.
The Turn of the Screwdriver the Author took the time to included Bar Basics which I needed because I know nothing about a Bar. What about you? Then there is Classic Cocktails (1764-1970) including “Cat On A Hot Gin Roof” which reminds me of the movie Cat On A Hot Tin Roof which I’ve never seen have you? Looks like its time for a movie date. Would you want to join us? David can’t wait to try. For me I think I will have “the Turn of the Screwdriver”.
Next is the Modern (1970-2022) and inside it is Mexican Hot Chocolate. I don’t know about you but I love Hot Chocolate and I can’t wait to try Mexican Hot Chocolate once the Weather changes and it gets colder here. David said he would like to try (Things We Mulled In The Cider) because he likes Apple Cider a lot and its his go to drink in Winter. How about you?
I like how the Author has shared techniques with us that will make our drinks go from boring to classy. There is so many recipes in here that David and I can’t wait to throw a Party and sample the drinks with our friends. Would you like to come? Before you ask no it isn’t party for women only because sometimes dads have to be both moms and dad so its a party to celebrate our friends and family and all the women or moms in our lives. Remember Fur-Moms are welcome as well.
About the book:
Shake up some dark and brooding Cocktails with 50 drink recipes inspired by your favorite gothic horror books, like Interview with a Vampire, Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, and Wuthering Heights—a perfect gift for booklovers and Mixologists!
Calling all booklovers and at-home Mixologists! Get out a chilled glass and prepare to get chills down your spine with these sinisterly scrumptious Cocktail recipes. Inspired by your favorite gothic tales, The Turn of the Screwdriver offers up 50 creative drink recipes so you can shake or stir up some liquid trouble to serve at any event. There’s a Cocktail for every dark and twisted soul out there, including:
- The Haunting of Highball House (The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson)
- The Portrait of Dorian Grey Goose (The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde)
- Mexican Hot Gothalate (Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia)
- Her Brandy and Other Parties (Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado)
- Lestat’s Bloody Sazerac (Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice)
- The Legend of Slushy Hallow (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving)
- And more!
Perfect for book nerds, horror fans, and those who celebrate Halloween all year round, The Turn of the Screwdriver is the ultimate gift to give your favorite goth or anyone obsessed with Wednesday Addams, like David and Charlie are. Or the Author Stephen King, and more gothic greats,
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
