By Kallie Hunchman It’s Halloween night. The sky is slowly darkening, and children are rushing around, putting last minute touches on their Halloween costumes. As they rush the streets, clutching empty jack o’lantern buckets, it’s not hard to see patterns in their attire. Princesses in sparkling dresses, pirates with little plastic swords, and ghosts under […]

By Addison Paul Saving people, hunting things: The family business. These words are known to many as a tagline for the dark fantasy television series Supernatural. Created by Eric Kripke, Supernatural has become a long-running pop-cultural phenomenon complete with a loyal and eccentric fanbase. With its 15th and final season airing in 2019 – 2020, […]

By Jo Ladner *contains ending spoilers for “Over the Garden Wall* “Over the Garden Wall” has been a Halloween tradition for me ever since it first released in 2013. A short mini-cartoon series Cartoon Network did specifically for Halloween, it’s plenty spooky and full of Halloween tropes, with living skeletons, ghosts, singing frogs, two brothers—Wirt […]

By Brooke Beaman

By Brooke Lilek *Chestnut: something repeated to the point of staleness; a trope Phoebe heard a knock on the front door and froze. An extreme reaction for someone who cannot sense death at her doorstep, but that’s Phoebe. She tensed before checking the peephole. She found no one out front though. Phoebe threw the deadbolt […]