The October issue of Animalia Magazine not only included a map of Spookyville and where to find what, it also included a history of Halloween, how it started, and how it became the holiday we know today. While some of them were easier to understand than others, some of those others were more surprising than others.
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One article talked about the origin of certain Halloween "icons" and "traditions", such as vampires, witches, and jack-o-lanterns. For example, the classic image of the witch stirring her bubbling cauldron actually came from a Celtic goddess known as "the crone" who cooked down old souls in her cauldron, thereby turning them into new souls and thereby having a place in the eternal cycle. But there was also a joke paragraph that said that she now had a place in heaven cooking down the souls that won Darwin Awards due to both Heaven and Hell refusing to accept them since doing so would "make them look bad in the eyes of their enemies.".
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Another article talked about ghosts, ghouls, and goblins from other cultures and what supposedly inspired them. Overall the article talked about how something seemingly as familiar as a dwarf or an elf could be radically different depending on your "culture", such as dwarves being cannibals, or elves being evil.
But there were some creatures that were considered downright creepy, no matter your culture. Case in point, the Ahuizotl. A creature of Aztec mythology that was best described as a cross between a monkey and a dog with a long tail tipped with a raccoon's hand. While that was disturbing in and of itself, those who were killed by it were said to be destined for the "paradise" of the Aztec god Tlaloc, which seemingly made it worse.
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There was also an article that talked about various genres in fiction, especially science fiction. Primarily, the article talked about the difference between steampunk, dieselpunk, cyberpunk, and biopunk, as well as works of fiction that showcased these three genres the most. Probably the most surprising thing of this article was the fact that the suffix "-punk" actually referred to counterculture as a whole, especially Post-WWII counterculture.
Probably the best part of the article talked about the planned movie/tv show (this part still wasn't nailed down quite yet) that was being done between the GGAC and Japan. While the finer details were still getting worked on, a rough skeleton had been finalized before the pandemic broke out. It was a combination of the warring states period of China and Feudal Japan before the Edo period, set to a cyberpunk theme with some supernatural elements. While some called it "an Asian version of The Matrix", there were enough supernatural elements to prevent it from being a carbon copy.
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The Digital copy of Animalia Magazine also included a few addresses for some "shows" created and directed by Miss Fabina, but these were only available to those who had premium accounts. While this was a damper on many people, who left reviews that had the overall theme of "disappointed", these were often commented on by people who were really good at doing clever comebacks, often leaving such reviews in the dust.