It’s that time of year again: celebrations of the macabre hit a little too close to home and brush up against our country’s very dark past. We talk about navigating fake horror amid what’s actually terrifying and how scaring ourselves, on purpose, can help us. This episode first ran in October 2019.

Original source: https://www.npr.org/2022/10/21/1130526036/halloween-and-real-life-horror