It may not be Halloween, but that shouldn’t stop you from learning about the history of depictions of witches throughout the decades in film and media. Author and witch-film-connoisseur Payton McCarty-Simas is here today to take you through a wild ride (on a broomstick) over feminism, horror, and women, in her new book, That Very Witch: Fear, Feminism, and the American Witch Film.

PAYTON MCCARTY-SIMAS:

More than anything else, my book, That Very Witch: Fear, Feminism, and the American Witch Fil...