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Study 176 - The Smoking Leg (Patreon)

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2026-08-20 19:51:19
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A drunk doctor sews a cursed gem into a patient's body then refers him to another drunk doctor in The Smoking Leg by John Metcalfe!

Special thanks to our reader Greig Johnson!

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Next up: Extra Credit on "Tails I Live, Heads You Die," an episode of Friday the 13th: The Series!

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Our old pal Brendan Gardiner (edited)

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2026-09-06 04:00 I work with someone named Geoghan and I know of a figure from popular culture named Muhammad Ali, so this was a distracting start to an episode.
2026-08-20 22:14 In addition to knowing of a figure from popular culture named Muhammad Ali, I work with someone named Geoghan, so this was a distracting start to an episode. Unlike the character in the story, however, my Geoghan is not whiskey mad, though neither could I describe him as whiskey sane.

In addition to knowing of a figure from popular culture named Muhammad Ali, I work with someone named Geoghan, so this was a distracting start to an episode. Unlike the character in the story, however, my Geoghan is not whiskey mad, though neither could I describe him as whiskey sane.

Kip Barnes

I was pretty sure this story was going to be about a really talented soccer player…I’m glad I was wrong. Now that the medallion is gone, he’s gonna be known at the tables as Lucky Leg Jan.

Newk

I DON'T CARE WHAT YA DO TO ME JUST GIMME SOME A THAT RAW WHISKEY

Joe Webb

I thought it would be about a dame with one great gam. And her other leg nice but sort of ordinary. That's where the horror, or at least weirdness would come in. Well, mildly weird. Unusual.

Joe Webb

I'm with Chad on this. That first doctor was out to get the other. He sent him a bomb, no way that wasn't dangerous one way or another. And since Jan had the lucky charm, and everything was blowing up around him, there was no way the second doc was going to remove them in the right order, for him to survive. If he took out the amulet first, *boom* Jan is toast. But since Jan was lucky, things turned out right. As far as the first doctor was concerned, anyway. A fun story.

Rafe Ball

Re. cutting Geoghan in half - the weapon Abdullah uses is described both as a 'knife' and a 'long spear' . Kris blades could be knives, or they could be the point of a spear. As it describes the doctor as bending over when Abdullah approaches, it may be that the lascar came up behind him and shoved a kris-tipped spear up his backside and out through his mouth. Vlad the Impaler approves!

Todd Korson

One of them. The doctor or the guy was going to die. If the doctor would have taken the amulet the guy with an injury would have died. Then the doctor would have been able to wield the eye without injury… The guy with an Injury was used to smuggle the items out.

ESTY

I suspect that the lanky, long lascar’s coup-de-gras was less of a *xylophone sound* bisection, and rather, more of a *trombone sound* spit-roasting with a weaponized tooth of a sacred sandworm.

It's a Ghost.

I wonder if the fact that Shaw was annihilated when he removed the ruby first means that Geoghan placed the ruby and the amulet in Abdullah's leg simultaneously. Which also makes me wonder if Geoghan's warning to be careful which item was removed first was a trick and whether the whole thing was just a "fun trick" that Geoghan was playing on Shaw. If Shaw removes the ruby first, he dies and the ruby is destroyed, and if he removes the amulet first, Abdullah dies and the ruby is destroyed. The only way for Shaw to obtain the ruby was to remove both items simultaneously!

etave

Oh my God! I love this story and one of my absolute favourite readers, Jasper LeStrange of the Encrypted podcast, read it recently! He did a fantastic job and I highly recommend it to everyone who has enjoyed listening to you dissect this absolutely bonkers story.

Jim Cannon

THAT was not what I was expecting. I'm not sure what I was expecting, to be honest. Some kind of steampunk mechanical leg, maybe, like a weird tales Six Million Dollar Man, perhaps? Instead a leg that sinks ships - presumably a LOT of ships, because the trip from India to England is not a short one. That amulet is some kind of artifact level magic item, to have kept Jan alive that long and that far.

Jim Cannon

So was it the second doctor's greed or the influence of the amulet that saved Jan's life?

Joe Webb

Both. The first doctor knew this guy wanted the luck amulet, and possibly the fire gem. So he couldn't help but try to get them out of Jan's leg. But the amulet was lucky for Jan, so it influenced the doc to go for the gem first. Luck shielded Jan, and doc number 2 goes kabloo. Doc 1 must have really hated doc 2, to give up that luck amulet.

Joe Webb

I think I messed up the names. This story is so great I'm just drunk with wonder. And raw whiskey, but mostly wonder.

Jeff C. Carter

This story reminded me of a bogeyman from Arabic folklore (pasting wikipedia entry here) - The "Abu Rigl Maslukha" (ابو رجل مسلوخة), which translates to the "Man With Burnt/Skinned Leg". It is a story that is traditionally told by parents when children misbehave. It is a monster said to have been burnt as a child because he did not listen to his parents. He grabs naughty children to cook and eat them.

red_hook_dave

Remember “raw uncut whiskey” is moonshine, think Everclear. Not just some regular drink, it’s powerful stuff that’s nasty af and doesn’t treat your body well.

Ghost Disco

You guys should read the Perelandra books by C.S. Lewis. Remarkably Lovecraftian.

Eric - Speaker in Digressions

I once was—in restrospect, blessedly—unable to attend a party where the hosts filled a punch bowl with Kool-Aid made from Everclear instead of water. I'm told the downstairs neighbors complained about all the projectile vomiting off the balcony that ensued.

Eric - Speaker in Digressions

I learned "Lascar" from HPL's "The Call of Cthulhu"—the two sailors who "helped" Mate Johansen after his fall in the streets of Oslo, shortly before his mysterious death. Probably would have been less mysterious if they'd had leg-based fire attacks!

Eric - Speaker in Digressions

(Still bummed I had to leave Andrew Leman's live reading of "The Call of Cthulhu" at NecronomiCon earlier this month because I ended up in the crowded, standing-room-only, not-reached-by-air-conditioning section of the small theater—the one where y'all and Grieg once did "Quiet and Bold"—and my girlfriend and I were about to swoon like Lovecraftian narrators.)