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Episode Seventy Five - Whatchu Wearing: Halloween Edition

Host Gregory Hallows, founder of the Halloween Preservation Society, is back to his rambling roots, this time it's Halloween costumes: what's trending this year, and what was popular five years ago. Enjoy! The website I found this y...

October 23, 2025 • 33:37

Episode Seventy Four - The Black Cat, the Bat, the Familiar

Host Gregory Hallows, founder of the Halloween Preservation Society, is back with another brief history, this time it's Halloween familiars: creatures of Halloween night, elegant, silent, and misunderstood, walking the line between superstition...

October 16, 2025 • 14:28

Episode Seventy Three - Cauldrons, Broomsticks, and the Black Hat

Host Gregory Hallows, founder of the Halloween Preservation Society, is back with another brief history, this time it's witches: mysterious, powerful, feared, and free, with echoes of the trials that still haunt America’s Halloween conscience, ...

October 14, 2025 • 16:05

Episode Seventy Two - Where the Dead Still Dwell

Host Gregory Hallows, founder of the Halloween Preservation Society, is back with another brief history, this time it's haunted houses: a symbol of memory, of fear, of what lingers after life, a warning and an invitation, and one of the most en...

October 09, 2025 • 19:16

Episode Seventy One - From Soul Cakes to Candy Corn

Host Gregory Hallows, founder of the Halloween Preservation Society, is back with another brief history, this time it's Trick or Treating: from soul cakes to guising — from origins, folklore, and its importance to Halloween....

October 05, 2025 • 14:29

Fan Mail

Hi! First, I'm so glad that you are back! I've been checking in with your podcast since last August and was concerned when it seemed you just went off the grid. I'm very relieved to know that you and your family are ok, and I hope everything is going well for you all! Needless to say, I was thrilled when I checked your podcast last month and you had posted a new episode! I just finished listening to your most recent episode on witches and it was great, and the long list of movies, shows, cartoons, etc...featuring witches that you provided was cool. I'm just chiming in here because I didn't hear you list the movie Bell, Book and Candle, which is a really great movie! It stars Kim Novak, playing a witch, and James Stewart, who is absolutely entranced by her. If you haven't seen it I highly recommend it! (And a big bonus is that Elsa Lancaster, who played Bride of Frankenstein stars in it as well, and she is AMAZING in it.) That's all, I 🎃 your podcast!!!! Please keep it up, and please stay spooky 👻!!!

Petersburg, Virginia

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