Halloween Special: Morticians, Witches, and Ghost Stories

Chicago Humanities Tapes

We have three tales of intrigue from the dark depths of the Chicago Humanities annals, featuring selections from YouTube’s Caitlin Doughty of “Ask a Mortician” about if cats will eat your eyeballs when you die, New School faculty member and author Kristen J. Sollée from her lecture “Witches, Sluts, Feminists,” and a section of a short ghost story by Chicago author Amy Giacalone from the compendium “Ghostly,” compiled by author Audrey Niffenegger.

SHOW NOTES:

Read the podcast transcript.

CW: Profanity, discussion of taboo topics

Photo: Caitlin Doughty, Kristen J. Sollée, and Amy Giacalone

Watch Caitlin Doughty and Mark Bazer's whole program here

Caitlin Doughty, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? and Other Questions About Dead Bodies

@AskAMortician YouTube channel

Watch Kristen J. Sollée's whole program here

Photo: Victoria Woodhull "Mrs. Satan"

Kristen Sollée, Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive

Watch the entire Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark: Audrey Niffenegger program featuring Amy Giacalone here

Audrey Niffenegger, Ghostly

Amy Giacalone website

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