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 Obscure Factoid of Delight: in England for much of the 19th century and into the early 20th, Halloween was also known as Nutcrack Night as it was associated with eating the new season's apples and nuts - and also a time when 'young maids' would play love divination games using nuts in front of blazing fires. If the nut burst in flames it meant your true love had the hots for you, if the nut shattered and spat fragments over the hearth, it meant your lover would be unfaithful. A bit like Tinder but with roasted walnuts. Here's a 1903 vintage invite to a Nutcrack Night party.
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The first is from The New Yorker, the second requires a moment's thought...  
Got $3.25 million to spare? How about a house in Los Angeles, just a few yards away from Sunset Boulevard and it has its own pool. If the building looks familiar that is because the building was the location for shooting the horror movie Nightmare on Elm Street.
All good things must end and in the last-ever episode of the Weird Tales Radio Show our big interview is with Marc Hartzman, who has been described as “one of America’s leading connoisseurs of the bizarre”. With Halloween just around the corner, we’re talking about his latest book Chasing Ghosts and will be looking at our fascination with spirits, the supernatural and talking to the dead.
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