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9 blood-curdling horror and true-crime podcasts for Halloween

Scary stories are some of the first we learn to tell.

A time-honored tradition at childhood sleepovers involves passing a flashlight around in the dark and trying to one-up your buddies with tales of the macabre. Monsters, real or imagined, are used to reinforce social mores - mothers shouldn't hurt their children, don't take candy from strangers, etc. Horror reinforces

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