😶🌫️ Fear doesn’t arrive screaming.
It arrives offering solutions.
In Episode 8: The Covenant, we explore the moment when fear stops being private and becomes communal — when people stop asking what’s happening and start agreeing on what must be done.
📖 This episode dives deep into Hopewell Hollow Chapters 16 and 17, where suspicion hardens into ritual and the idea of “just three” becomes dangerously reasonable.
🩸 From there, Macabre Bob traces the real-world consequences of fear made law — from the Salem Witch Trials to documented global cases where belief, authority, and panic led to executions and communal violence.
🎞️ We then break down folk horror as a genre, not as monsters or aesthetics, but as a social mechanism. Through in-depth analysis of landmark films like The Wicker Man, The Witch, Impetigore, November, Onibaba, and Häxan, this episode exposes how covenants form, scapegoats are chosen, and relief is mistaken for morality.
🕯️ This isn’t an episode about evil.
It’s an episode about agreement.
🖤 Echoes in the Dark is a horror podcast featuring original stories, true hauntings, and horror genre explored.
⚠️ Listener discretion advised.
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Some places don’t haunt you.
They wait.
That noise you hear while you're lying in bed is just your imagination...or is it?
