Mon. 10/31 - Queen's 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)
• Taylor Swift Makes History as First Artist With Entire Top 10 on Billboard Hot 100, Led by 'Anti-Hero' at No. 1 (Billboard)
• Jackson Bird on Twitter

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