MRA: As a fan of ghost stories, I've always been interested in the way horror can be a veil for telling history, or an angle for viewing it. So I guess my interest in the supernatural came first. During research for past projects, including Monster, She Wrote, I became aware of the connections between historical moments and the occult. An example of this is the rise of Spiritualism and its connections to the feminist movement of the 19th century, a topic that has been written about by scholars like Ann Braude and Molly McGarry.