The Second Week of Halloween: Hauntings

The Second Week show notes

This week, we talk about ghosts, spirits, and all manner of hauntings. (BTW, the bark at 00:10:49 was an unplanned interruption from an actual living dog. Not a spirit.)

And we introduce a rating system for the fright level of our recommendations:

Spooky (Maybe some jump scares, but it’s more about the mood.)

Scary (Real frights, but nothing too graphic or disturbing.)

Horrifying (Blood, monsters, madness. You are warned.)

Recommended in this episode

Poem

Haunted Houses by Carl Sandberg

Movies

Housebound (2014)
Mostly spooky, some scary stuff

Beetlejuice (1998)
Mostly spooky, some scary images/characters played for laughs

Books

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (also available as a graphic novel)
Spooky

Amphigorey by Edward Gorey
Spooky

Comics

The Me You Love in the Dark by Skottie Young & Jorge Corona
Scary, with touches of Horrifying

Locke and Key by Joe Hill & Gabriel Rodriguez
No rating from us—we haven’t read it yet

Podcasts

Too Scary, Didn’t Watch
Spooky to Horrifying—but told second-hand to someone who doesn’t like scary stuff.

Also mentioned

Wikipedia is your friend, often with full synopses you can check out if you want to know what a book or movie has got planned for you.