This year's Halloween is the short but chilling horror story "The Tower" by Marghanita Laski, first published in 1955.

A woman named Caroline is fascinated by a ruined tower near Florence, after having learned of its unfortunate inhabitants and their mysterious demise. So she goes to visit, and this story documents every agonizing step of a trip she never should have taken.

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Featured Music:

• "Winter" by Vivaldi

• "E Lucevan le Stelle, Tosca Act III" by Giacomo Puccini

• "Devil's Trill Sonata in G Minor" by Tartini

• "Dreamhouse" from Pathologic 2

• "Air Castle" from Pathologic 2

Other Halloween Readings:

• "The Repairer of Reputations" by Robert W. Chambers

• "This Band Could Be Your Life" by Gary Butterfield

• "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

• "The Mask" by Robert W. Chambers