For this episode, we take a step away from politics and into pop culture. In honor of Halloween, we explore the evolution of the holiday on both sides of the Atlantic, what makes a great horror film, and why people find scary stories and true crime so intriguing. Host Sylvia Cunningham is joined by Jay Velasco, a DJ under the alias Midnight Boutique and the program director of our partner station WNHU (00:58); horror author and Halloween expert, Lisa Morton (05:45); Krümel and Suse, co-hosts of the German-language podcast “SchaurigSchön: Gruselstunde per Anhalter” (or “Pretty Scary: Horror Storyhour for Hitchhikers”) and Anna DiNino, host of “Crime Bistro,” a podcast exploring a variety of true crime cases (13:40); and Eli Lewy, the co-director of the Final Girls Berlin Film Festival, which showcases works directed, written, or produced by women and non-binary filmmakers (19:38).