In 1692, believing they were under attack by people doing the devil's work, the Puritans of Salem, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, imprisoned more than 100 people and executed 20. "Witch Hunt" (8

In 1692, believing they were under attack by people doing the devil's work, the Puritans of Salem, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, imprisoned more than 100 people and executed 20. "Witch Hunt" (8 p.m., History Channel) offers insights into the Salem Witch Trials, with dramatizations based upon historical writings and trial records.
The trick-or-treaters are thinning out, so now is a good time to settle in for a scary movie. Ellen Burstyn and Annabella Sciorra costar in this CBS original film, "The Madam's Family: The Truth About the Canal Street Brothel" (9 p.m., CBS). The movie is based on the true story of three generations of women who own and operate a New Orleans brothel that becomes a target of the FBI.
Bruce Campbell is host of "Boogeymen II: Masters of Horror" (9 p.m., Sci-Fi Channel), which looks at some of horror's greatest movies and the creators who made them, such as Wes Craven and Tobe Hooper.
In "Secrets of the Dead" (10 p.m., PBS), a behavioral psychologist, Linnda Caporael, tries to settle the mystery of the sickness that inspired the Salem witch trials in 1692. Caporael asks: Could Puritans have unwittingly been consuming bread infected with the fungus from which LSD is derived?
Unlike modern horror films, 1963's "The Haunting" (10 p.m., TCM) doesn't rely on graphic violence to scare the stuffing out of its audience. Julie Harris and Claire Bloom are among a group invited to an old New England house to be introduced to the supernatural -- and are they ever.
The quirky series "Dead Like Me" (10 p.m., Showtime), will end its second season today -- Halloween, of course -- and does so by putting George (Ellen Muth) and her fellow Reapers in a perilous situation. Because they're already dead, the danger to them is limited as they try to stop a serial killer's reign of terror. But the stakes are still reasonably high because George's surviving loved ones (among others) could be targeted.