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December 13, 2024 33 mins

Life is hard! So I'm really glad that cozy horror movies like A Haunting in Venice exist to comfort us through times of hardship and winter frostbite.

In this episode, we explore A Haunting in Venice (2024) as a shining example of cozy horror, and why cozy horror is good for our mental health.

I also pull some tarot cards to try and make sense of why there is such divisive rhetoric in the horror community against cozy horror!

Mental Health is Horrifying is hosted by Candis Green, Registered Psychotherapist and owner of Many Moons Therapy.

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Show Notes:

Want to work together? I offer 1:1 psychotherapy (Ontario), along with tarot, horror, and dreamwork services, but individually and through my group program, the Final Girls Club. 

Send me some Ghoul Mail! I love hearing from you spooky ghouls! Want a chance to have your story read on a future episode of Mental Health is Horrifying? If you’d like to share what horror movies mean to you, how they have helped you with your mental health, or about a particular horror movie that you have thoughts and feelings about, send me some Ghoul Mail. 

Podcast artwork by Chloe Hurst at Contempo Mint.

Instead of Arguing About This Horror Genre, Why Not Curl Up and Enjoy It? By Julia Glassman in The Mary Sue


Oster, Emily F., Witchcraft, Weather and Economic Growth in Renaissance Europe. Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2004

The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff 


About Agatha Christie 

Subject spotlight: Mystery & Detective By BookNet Canada


Why Is Pandemic Fiction So Comforting Right Now? By By Kathryn VanArendonk in Vulture

What You Need To Know About Pluto in Aquarius from Chani

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