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An Interview with Payton McCarty Simas, Author THAT VERY WITCH
May 21, 2025 · 24 min

In this bonus episode, Ariel interviews author Payton McCarty-Simas about their upcoming book, That Very Witch: Fear, Feminism, and the American Witch Film. The two of them discuss how witch films follow the cycles of feminism and other political movements in the US, why history matters in horror, and why Heather in The Blair Witch Project did nothing wrong. 

Preorder "That Very Witch: Fear, Feminism, and the American Witch Film" here.Follow Payton on Instagram @paytplace .Add The Devonsville Terror to your watch list.