This week Mikie recounts the fourth episode of the first season of Are You Afraid of the Dark, The Tale of the Twisted Claw. In this episode a couple of thirteen year olds up to no good play an ill-advised prank on the local witch, causing her to break her own vase. Seeking ironic revenge on Halloween she gives them a dessicated animal claw instead of candy which is guaranteed to grant three wishes but none of their wishes work out quite the way they expect.

This episode features home decor that offensive to Dave. Mikie is pretty sure his mom stole the idea for her own cottagecore aesthetic. Aileen sees her own future as the local witch living in a haunted house and it turns out that the mean streets of Winnipeg have a real bad gang problem.

Aileen walks The 9:30 Society through the third episode of the first season, The Tale of the Lonely Ghost. Are you a zeeb? Don't know? Brother, you don't want to be one. In this episode a bookish country girl, Amanda, is sent to the big city to spend the summer with her heinous cousin Beth and her clique of Heathers. Desperate to fit in and go to the pool party, Beth and her hyenas challenge Amanda to spend the night in the neighboring house, which is supposedly haunted. What she finds there will solve a decades-long mystery that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. This one has it all: weird nickname, horrible children, clueless adults in absolutely mind-bending fashion. You will hate Beth as much as we did.

Bryan walks us through the second episode of the first season, The Tale of Laughing in the Dark. In this episode three friends dare one another to go into the haunted house attraction at a local carnival. Only one is brave enough to take the trip and steal the nose off the clown in the house but later on he'll find out that the haunted house has a dark past and that the local legends about Zeebo the clown might be more true than he realizes. You get more radical 90's tween fashion, some positively weird nicknames, and The Riddle Pervert returns!