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Mon. 10/31 - Queen Victoria's Halloween Ragers

Dispatches from the Recreational Fear Lab on why being scared might be a healthy thing. And the raucous Halloween parties Queen Victoria used to throw in Scotland.

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Links:

The Director of the Recreational Fear Lab Explains Why We Love to Be Scared (Slate)

The monarch who loved Scots' spooky traditions (Scottish Field)

Queen Victoria's highland journals (Internet Archive)

Halloween by Robert Burns (Academy of American Poets)

Halloween - Robert Burns (MindYerLanguage?, YouTube)

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