The Third Week of Halloween: Witches

The Third Week show notes

This week, in addition to our recommendations, we take a couple of deep dives: the Salem Witch Trials, and comics! Makes sense, doesn’t it?

Recommended in this episode

Poem

Selections from Mother Goose (The Original Volland Edition)

Movies

Practical Magic (1998)
Spooky, some scary (abuse)

Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989)
Spooky at most

Spirited Away (2001)
Spooky, some scary

Penny Dreadful (2014-2016)
Scary, some horrifying

Books

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
Spooky, some scary (abuse)

Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
Spooky

Which Witch? by Eva Ibbotson
Spooky

The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Volume 1: Charmed Life/The Lives of Christopher Chant, by Diana Wynn Jones
Spooky

Witches! The Absolutely True Tale of Diasaster in Salem by Rosalyn Schanzer
Scary (actual history)

Comics

Archie Horror, an imprint of Archie Comics
Spooky to Scary, with touches of Horrifying

Archie vs. Predator II by Alex De Campi & Robert Hack, Kelly Fitzpatrick, Jack Morelli
Spooky to Scary, with touches of Horrifying

Podcasts

The Lovecraft Investigations: The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
Scary

In Our Time: The Salem Witch Trials
Scary (actual history)

Errata

In this podcast, Jamie mistakenly refers to the Archie in Archie vs. Predator II as a “robotic” Archie. It is in fact a Predator modified to look like Archie. We regret the error. We regret it so, so much.