The First Week of Halloween 2023

It’s time for another edition of our seasonal recommendations podcast, The Four Weeks of Halloween.

Halloween is more than just one night—it’s a whole month. That’s like four weeks of books, movies, podcasts, poetry, comics, tea towels, etc, etc, all dedicated to the spooky! We try to help you, the horror-curious, to get started with recommendations to help you live your best Spooky Season.

Recommended in this episode

Poems

Vintage Halloween Greeting Cards by various

Movies/TV

Van Helsing (2004) Spooky, some scary; rent or stream on Apple+, AMC, Prime Video, YouTube and others

Crazy Head (2005) Spooky leaning to scary; stream on Netflix

Good Omens (2019-2023) Spooky, some scary; stream on Prime Video

Books

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman (spooky at most; also on Libby)

Monster, She Wrote by Lisa Kröger & Melanie R. Anderson (non-fiction about a range of works; also on Libby)

The Weird edited by Anne and Jeff VanderMeer (spooky, some genuinely scary, one to two horrifying; also on Libby)

Podcasts

Random Number Generator Horror Podcast No. Nine (plot synopses of the spooky, the scary, and the horrifying)

Too Scary, Didn’t Watch (plot synopses of the spooky, the scary, and the horrifying)

also mentioned

Wikipedia (another great resource for plot synopses before you commit)

*If you recognize what line from what movie I paraphrased for that last line in the intro, let us know in the comments, would you? See you there…