The Halloween Podcast

Lyle and Meghan continue the Xennial Countdown to Halloween with LVCRFT — Evan “Kidd” Bogart, Amanda “MNDR” Warner, and Peter Wade — and Special Guest Katharine Isabelle. Together, they head back into the Halloween world they grew up with and explore some of the sounds and spooky pop culture that helped make the season what it was for a generation of Xennials.

They also dive into LVCRFT’s eighth album, Skeleton Sam’s Deadtime Stories, featuring an incredible collection of familiar faces and voices from the horror world, including Katharine on “Sweet Kristine.” It’s a conversation about growing up with Halloween, creating for it now, and how the things being made today might become the Halloween nostalgia of future generations.

25 days until Halloween!

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Lyle and Meghan welcome British composer and sound designer Leigh Haggerwood to The Halloween Podcast to explore something we hear every October but rarely stop to think about: the sounds that make Halloween spooky. Leigh has spent decades working professionally in music and sound, with credits across British television, live productions, commercials, and sound design, while also creating Halloween and horror soundscapes heard by listeners around the world.

From childhood trick-or-treating in London to creating imaginary haunted worlds entirely through sound, Leigh joins us for a fascinating conversation about the language of spooky audio, Britain’s centuries-old tradition of ghosts and folklore, reputedly haunted places, and how Halloween sound effects have evolved from physical records, cassettes, and CDs into the digital age.

25 days until Halloween!

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Under the Umbrella Tree was a cozy fixture of Meghan’s childhood Disney Channel viewing, but this Canadian children’s favorite is completely new to Lyle. For the Xennial Countdown, they revisit Holly, Iggy, Gloria and Jacob—and the wonderfully simple Halloween special that brought the holiday into their already delightfully unusual household. 

From costumes and trick-or-treating to a little practical Halloween safety and some wonderfully witchy fun, this is the kind of seasonal television that could make an already-beloved childhood show feel even more special. Meghan revisits a Halloween memory she hasn’t forgotten, while Lyle discovers what made this little corner of early ’90s television so memorable. 

27 days until Halloween! 

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Witch’s Night Out is one of Meghan’s beloved childhood Halloween specials — a wonderfully weird Canadian cartoon from 1978 featuring Gilda Radner as an eccentric Witch who can make a couple of kids’ Halloween dreams come spectacularly true. Meghan still watches it every year and is now introducing it to her own children. 

Lyle, however, had somehow never seen it. So Meghan takes him to Anytown for the first time to talk about the distinctive animation, that unforgettable opening song, a surprisingly recognizable voice cast, and why this peculiar little special has remained part of her Halloween for so many years. Will its weirdness win Lyle over without the childhood nostalgia? Well... that may be another story. 

28 days until Halloween! 

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Actor Curtis Andersen, who played Gordy on Sabrina the Teenage Witch, joins Meghan and Lyle for a trip through Halloween horror! Curtis puts together a movie watch list every year leading up to Halloween, so we’re talking about some of his annual go-tos alongside a few films that earned an important place in horror history.

How did horror movies become such a big part of the way we celebrate Halloween? We’re talking scary movie traditions, Halloween nostalgia, and the films we find ourselves coming back to when October rolls around. Plus, Curtis shares his own Halloween memories and traditions along the way.

29 days until Halloween!

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