Podcasts for Halloween 2014

As you may recall, last year I published a post of podcast recommendations for Halloween listening; if you haven't seen it, you can check it out here. I'm doing the same this year, adding further episode recommendations of last year's featured podcasts as well as new podcasts I've discovered in the past eleven months.

So if you're looking for something to listen to this October, here's a list of the episodes of some of my favorite podcasts that lend themselves to the Halloween spirit. And, yes, everything listed below is completely free to download and/or listen. Please note that this list only includes episodes and podcasts that I have actually listened to; if I don't listen to a specific podcast or haven't yet listened to a specific episode of one of the podcasts mentioned below, it won't be on this list. Please feel free to leave recommendations in the comments!

Stuff Mom Never Told You is How Stuff Works's gender studies podcast. While such a topic doesn't come a plethora of subjects that lend themselves to Halloween, there are a few episodes that you might want to try:

• Inside the Minds of Lady Killers with Candice DeLong
• What is vagina dentata?
• Halloween Slasher Spectacular!

Stuff to Blow Your Mind, originally titled Stuff From the Science Lab, is a How Stuff Works podcast focusing on scientific topics such as robotics, space exploration, and the like. Halloweenish episodes of StBYM tend to come in the form of exploring the IRL versions of horror tropes, but there are a few actual Halloween themed episodes that come out during October.

• Prehistoric Monsters of the Deep
• Mad Scientists: Frankenstein and the Fly
• Probing Questions about Alien Abduction
• Fine Young Cannibals
• The Creepy Cool World of Imaginary Friends
• The Candy Corn Menace
• What's in a witches brew?
• Frankenstein's Monster
• Humanity's Love Affair with the Apocalypse
• Spontaneous Human Combustion
• The Seven Deadlies: Pride Cometh Before the Brain
• The Seven Deadlies: Green with Envy
• The Seven Deadlies: Glutton Chops
• The Seven Deadlies: Grasping Greed
• The Seven Deadlies: Lust!
• The Seven Deadlies: Wrath
• The Seven Deadlies: Sloth

Stuff You Missed in History Class is, obviously enough, How Stuff Works' history podcast. Their Halloweenish episodes include:

• The Sisters Fox: They Talked to Dead People
• Who was the real Dr. Frankenstein?
• Blood Work, Part 1 & Part 2
• H.H. Holmes and the Mysteries of Murder Castle, Part 1 & Part 2

Perhaps the most well-known podcast from How Stuff Works is Stuff You Should Know. Episodes that fit the Halloween and horror theme are:

• What makes a serial killer?
• What's the deal with Voodoo?
• The Tomb by H.P. Lovecraft
• Scooby Dooby Doo, Where Are You?
• How Shrunken Heads Work
• Who was America's first murderer?
• How Schizophrenia Works
• Berenice by Edgar Allen Poe
• Was there a curse on King Tut's tomb?
• What's the deal with the Bermuda Triangle?
• How the Donner Party Worked

Do you have any Halloween podcast recommendations? Let me know below!