In this Halloween special, Quest and Annabelle talk about the poetics, play, and "dangers" of the Ouija board.
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Bibliography:“‘The Medium is the Message in the Spacious Present’: Channeling, Television, and the New Age” by Hugh Urban, in Handbook of Spiritualism and Channeling, ed. Cathy Gutierrez
“Parlor Games: Play and Social Life in the Haunted House” in Supernatural Entertainments: Victorian Spiritualism and the Rise of Modern Media Culture by Simone Natale
“Wars and Ouija: Spiritualism in the Twentieth Century” in Calling the Spirits by Lisa Morton
“An Aesthetic History of the Ouija Board’ by Jesse Ryan Erickson, in Printing History
“James Merrill, Sylvia Plath, and the Poetics of Ouija” by Helen Sword in American Literature, vol. 66, no. 3, 1994 https://doi.org/10.2307/2927604
