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14 under-the-radar tales to freak you out this Halloween

Including movies, books, podcasts, and asking your friends to tell you a scary story.

An enormous wicker man stands on a hilltop, surrounded by four smaller figures, all real humans bearing torches.

Rundown

Episodes Monday Rundown October 20-26 2025

This week: The Wicker Man, the new Last Dinner Party album, and so much found-footage horror

Taylor Swift reclines on the floor of a bedroom, wearing a sparkly silver dress. There's also a tiny piano here for some reason.

music

Maybe I don't need Taylor Swift anymore

Emily St. James on transition, changing tastes, and why so many Swifties seem to HATE her new album

Rose Byrne, hair straggly and face glum, stands outside a hotel, clutching a bottle of wine and a baby monitor.

Rundown

Episodes Monday Rundown October 13 - 19 2025

This week: If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, some horror classics, and Rilo Kiley in concert.

A vintage Halloween card features a black cat pulling a jack-o-lantern in a straw hat in a cart. The words read "For a Merry Halloween."

Mailbag

October mailbag!

This month: Which classic Hollywood director could have crushed a found-footage movie? Also: It's spooky season!

A girl crawls out of a television, long dark hair draped down so you cannot see her face.

movies

American film could use a little more J-horror in it

American horror looking to break clichés should borrow some ideas from Japanese horror films, writes Lily Osler.

Two people sit on an enormous, seemingly endless staircase, buttressed by giant statues, in an extreme wide shot.

Rundown

Episodes Monday Rundown October 6 - 12 2025

This week: A bunch of movies from 1946, Paul Tremblay's best, and DID YOU KNOW HOW LONG IT TAKES THE YEARLING TO SHOW UP IN THE YEARLING? A LONG TIME!!!

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Submit your October mailbag questions!

It's that time again!

Journalist Chris Hansen, in a suit, sits down for a talking-head interview in a completely beige studio space.

documentary

A brilliant new documentary puts "To Catch a Predator" under the microscope

David Osit's Predators examines not just the show but the culture that produced it, Emily St. James writes.

Taylor Swift, lit with a green light, wears an enormous feathered contraption and grips her face. She's got a dark brunette wig on.

Rundown

Episodes Monday Rundown September 29 - October 5 2025

This week: Taylor Swift, Chappell Roan in concert, and one of the year's best films.

Leonardo DiCaprio, clad in a bathrobe and comfy clothes, stands on a desert highway, holding a gun, his beater car just behind him.

movies

One Battle After Another is about this moment in history. And every other time too.

All of the things that make the film timely really mark its timelessness, writes Emily St. James.

A cabin in the midst of a terrible snowstorm. It is covered in snow, and icicles hang all over from it.

You don't miss your childhood. You miss not being angry.

Emily St. James on AI nostalgia, fascism, and our longing for less technology.

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