“I love Halloween, and I love that feeling: the cold air, the spooky dangers lurking around the corner.” — Evan Peters
“It’s all just a bunch of hocus pocus!” — Max, Hocus Pocus
“Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.”— Steve Almond
“When witches go riding, and black cats are seen, the moon laughs and whispers, ‘tis near Halloween.” — Unknown
“Villainy wears many masks, none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.” Ichabod Crane, Sleepy Hollow
“No good deed will I do again.” Elphaba, Wicked
“Witch parking. All others will be toad.” Unknown
“I’ll stop wearing black when they make a darker color.” —Wednesday Addams, The Addams Family
“Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.” —Stephen Graham Jones
“Eat, drink and be scary!” —Unknown
“I witch you a Happy Halloween.” —Unknown
“For some of us, Halloween is everyday.” —Tim Burton
“A mask tells us more than a face.” —Oscar Wilde
“May your candy supply last you well into the Christmas season.” —Unknown
“Halloween is the only time I can easily convince others that my children are monsters.” —Unknown
“The cobwebs in my house just became my decorations!” —Unknown
“Have you come to sing pumpkin carols?” —Linus, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
“Magic is really very simple, all you’ve got to do is want something and then let yourself have it.” –Aggie Cromwell, Halloweentown
“During the day, I don’t believe in ghosts. At night, I’m a little more open-minded.” —Unknown
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself…and spiders.” —Unknown
“If the broom fits, ride it!” —Unknown
“This witch can be bribed with chocolate.” —Unknown
“Keep calm and scary on.” —Unknown
“A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.” —Emma Bombeck
“Goodbye cruel world.” Winifred Sanderson, Hocus Pocus
“The world turned upside down—in a good way—for one black velvet night.” Karen Fortunati, American Author
“Halloween was the best holiday, in my opinion, because it was all about friends, monsters, and candy, rather than family and responsibility.” – Margee Kerr
“The farther we’ve gotten from the magic and mystery of our past, the more we’ve come to need Halloween.” — Paula Curan
“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.” —William Shakespeare, Macbeth
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” — L.M. Montgomery
“Halloween was confusing. All my life my parents said, ‘Never take candy from strangers.’ And then they dressed me up and said, ‘Go beg for it.'” – Rita Rudner
“Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.” — Stephen Graham Jones
“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.” Stephen King, American Author
” I dropped the candies into the children’s bags, thinking: You small mortals don’t realize the power of your stories.” Karen Russell, Vampires in the Lemon Grove
“I would die for her. I would kill for her. Either way, what bliss.” Gomez, The Addams Family
“You must believe me, it was a horseman, a dead one! Headless!” Ichabod Crane, Sleepy Hollow
“He had arranged the arms and legs in letters, and the letters spelled out a single small word: BOO. The three torsos were carefully arranged below the BOO in a quarter-circle, making a cute little Halloween smile. What a scamp.” Jeff Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter
“Halloween shadows played upon the walls of the houses. In the sky the Halloween moon raced in and out of the clouds. The Halloween wind was blowing, not a blasting of wind but a right-sized swelling, falling, and gushing of wind. It was a lovely and exciting night, exactly the kind of night Halloween should be.” Eleanor Estes, The Witch Family
“Halloween is an ancient druidic holiday, one the Celtic peoples have celebrated for millennia. It is the crack between the last golden rays of summer and the dark of winter; the delicately balanced tweak of the year before it is given over entirely to the dark; a time for the souls of the departed to squint, to peek and perhaps to travel through the gap.” Jenny Colgan, Welcome To Rosie Hopkins’ Sweetshop Of Dreams
“Everything seemed cut from soft black velvet or gold or orange velvet. Smoke panted up out of a thousand chimneys like the plumes of funeral parades. From kitchen windows drifted two pumpkin smells: gourds being cut, pies being baked.” Ray Bradbury, American Author
“Believe nothing you hear, and only half of what you see.” —Edgar Allen Poe
“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.” —Bram Stoker
“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.” —Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.” —Stephen King
“I would like, if I may, to take you on a strange journey.” —The Criminologist, The Rocky Horror Picture Show
“It’s as much fun to scare as to be scared.” —Vincent Price
“Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen. Voices whisper in the trees, ‘Tonight is Halloween!'” —Dexter Kozen
“I love Halloween, and I love that feeling: the cold air, the spooky dangers lurking around the corner.” —Evan Peters
“Magic is really very simple, all you’ve got to do is want something and then let yourself have it.” — Aggie Cromwell, Halloweentown
“She’d always loved Halloween. A magic night. A night when anything could happen. Monsters could be real. Magic could whisper in the air.” – Cynthia Eden
“Anyone could see that the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel because it was All Hallows’ Eve.” Ray Bradbury, American Author
“During the day, I don’t believe in ghosts. At night, I’m a little more open-minded.” Unknown
“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.” William Shakespeare, Macbeth
“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.” Edgar Allan Poe, American Writer
“The farther we’ve gotten from the magic and mystery of our past, the more we’ve come to need Halloween.” —Paula Guran
“Wishing you a spook-tacular Halloween!” —Unknown
“Hope you don’t have a scare in the world this Halloween!” —Unknown
“October brings crisp, cool nights and Halloween frights.” —Unknown
“Wishing you a spooky good October and a fang-tastic Halloween!” —Unknown
“A candy a day keeps the monsters away.” —Unknown
“There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch.” —Robert Brault
“On Halloween you get to become anything that you want to be.” —Ava Dellaria
“We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!” —Humbert Wolfe
“Ghosts and goblins come to play on October’s final day!” —Rusty Fischer
“Where there is no imagination there is no horror.” Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer
“It’s Halloween; everyone’s entitled to one good scare.” — Brackett, Halloween
“The world turned upside down–in a good way–for one black velvet night:. – Karen Fortunati
“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
“Fear,’ the doctor said, ‘is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.’” Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
“I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
“Halloween is an opportunity to be really creative.” Judy Gold, American Comedian
“Harvey wasn’t interested in the clothes, it was the masks that mesmerized him. They were like snowflakes: no two alike. Some were made of wood and of plastic; some of straw and cloth and papier-mâché. Some were as bright as parrots, others as pale as parchment. Some were so grotesque he was certain they’d been carved by crazy people; others so perfect they looked like the death masks of angels. There were masks of clowns and foxes, masks like skulls decorated with real teeth, and one with carved flames instead of hair.” Clive Barker, The Thief of Always
“Good-bye, Ichabod Crane. I curse the day you came to Sleepy Hollow.” Katrina Van Tassel, Sleepy Hollow
“I was born on the night of Samhain, when the barrier between the worlds is whisper-thin and when magic, old magic, sings its heady and sweet song to anyone who cares to hear it.” Carolyn MacCullough, Once a Witch
“Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.” Mason Cooley, American Aphorist
“Not every witch lives in Salem.” Unknown
“There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch.” — Robert Brault
“The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” – Eden Phillpots
“I put a spell on you because you’re mine.” Jay Hawkins, American Singer-Songwriter
“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
“We gladly feast on those who would subdue us.” The Addams Family
“Sticky fingers, tired feet; one last house, trick or treat!” Rusty Fischer, American Author
“Trick or treat, bag of sweets, ghosts are walking down the street.” Unknown
“I must go in. The fog is rising.” Emily Dickinson, American Poet
“Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.” Bill Waterson, American Cartoonist
“I’m wicked through and through.” Elphaba, Wicked
“The dead rise again, bats fly, terror strikes and screams echo, for tonight it’s Halloween.” Unknown
“When the witches go riding, and black cats are seen, the moon laughs and whispers ’tis near Halloween.” Unknown
“Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?” Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
“We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!” Humbert Wolfe, British Poet
“On Halloween you get to become anything that you want to be.” Ava Dellaria, American Author
“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.” J.K. Rowling, English Author
“Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded…” Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.” L.M. Montgomery, Canadian Author
“This wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. Either it goes or I do.” Oscar Wilde
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” William Shakespeare, The Tempest
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” —William Shakespeare
“The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” —Eden Phillpots
“Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.” —Arthur Conan Doyle
“It’s all just a bunch of hocus pocus!” —Max, Hocus Pocus
“Something wicked this way comes.” —William Shakespeare
“It’s Halloween, everyone’s entitled to one good scare.” —Brackett
“When black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam, may luck be yours on Halloween.” —Unknown
“There is something haunting in the light of the moon.” —Joseph Conrad
“Werewolves howl. Phantoms prowl. Halloween’s upon us now.” —Richelle E. Goodrich
“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.” —J.K. Rowling
“Trick or treat, bag of sweets, ghosts are walking down the street.” —Unknown
“Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.” Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
“It’s Halloween; everyone’s entitled to one good scare.” Brackett, Halloween
“That’s the problem. He was dead to begin with.” Ichabod Crane, Sleepy Hollow
“Shadows mutter, mist replies; darkness purrs as midnight sighs.” Rusty Fischer, American Author
“I love Halloween, and I love that feeling: the cold air, the spooky dangers lurking around the corner.” Evan Peters, American Actor
“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.” George Carlin, American Comedian
“A person should always choose a costume which is in direct contrast to her own personality.” Lucy Van Pelt, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
“There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch.” Robert Brault, American Author
“Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen. Voices whisper in the trees, ‘Tonight is Halloween!’” Dexter Kozen
“Wench! Trollop! You bucktoothed, mop-riding firefly from hell!” Billy Butcherson, Hocus Pocus
“Deep into the darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing/Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” Edgar Allen Poe, The Raven
“Magic is really very simple; all you’ve got to do is want something and then let yourself have it.” Aggie Cromwell, Halloweentown
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.” Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
“We danced the Mamushka while Nero fiddled, we danced the Mamushka at Waterloo. We danced the Mamushka for Jack the Ripper, and now, Fester Addams, this Mamushka is for you.” Gomez, The Addams Family
“I’m a witch every day. Not just for Halloween.” Unknown
“Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?” Dracula
“I would like, if I may, to take you on a strange journey.” The Criminologist, Rocky Horror Picture Show
“When the spooks have a midnight jamboree/They break it up with fiendish glee/The ghosts are bad but the one that’s cursed/Is the headless horseman; he’s the worst/That’s right, he’s a fright on Halloween night! When he goes a joggin’ ‘cross the land/Holding his noggin in his hand/Demons take one look and groan/And they hit the road to parts unknown/Beware, take care he rides alone! The Headless Horseman, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
“There is nothing that gives more assurance than a mask.” Collette, French Author
“Be afraid, be very afraid.” Ronnie, The Fly
“Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.” Steve Almond, American Short Story Writer
“Every day is Halloween, isn’t it? For some of us.” Tim Burton, American Filmmaker
“The farther we’ve gotten from the magic and mystery of our past, the more we’ve come to need Halloween.” Paula Guran, American Author
“I’m a homicidal maniac. They look just like everyone else.” Wednesday Addams, The Addams Family
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself… and spiders.” Unknown
“I’ll stop wearing black when they make a darker color.” Wednesday Addams, The Addams Family
“A mask tells us more than a face.” Oscar Wilde, Irish Poet
“It’s a full moon tonight. That’s why all the weirdos are out.” Dani, Hocus Pocus
“Maybe now you’ll never slime a guy with a positron collider, huh?” Dr. Peter Venkman, Ghostbusters
“I’ve seen enough horror movies to know that any weirdo wearing a mask is never friendly.” Elizabeth, Friday the 13th
“Werewolves howl. Phantoms prowl. Halloween’s upon us now.” Richelle E. Goodrich, American Author
“Witch and ghost make merry on this last of dear October days.” Unknown
“There is a town, two days journey to the north in the Hudson Highlands. It is a place called Sleepy Hollow. Have you heard of it?… An isolated farming community, mainly Dutch. Three persons have been murdered there, all within a fortnight. Each one found with the head lopped off… Clean as dandelion heads, apparently. You will take these experimentations of yours to Sleepy Hollow, and there you will detect the murderer. Bring him here to face our good justice. Will you do this?” The Burgomaster, Sleepy Hollow
“Well, fancy! We desire children.” Winifred Sanderson, Hocus Pocus
“Men say that in this midnight hour, the disembodied have power.” William Motherwell, Scottish Poet
“Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a slightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat… ” Nicholas Gordon, Poet
“The moon has awoken with the sleep of the sun, the light has been broken; the spell has begun.” Midgard Morningstar
“If human beings had genuine courage, they’d wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.” Douglas Copeland, Canadian Author
“A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man woke in the night.” J.M. Barrie, Scottish Author
“There is magic in the night when pumpkins glow by moonlight.” Unknown
“The rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open.” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
“I am all in a sea of wonders; I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.” Bram Stoker, Irish Author
“To live without you, only that would be torture.” Gomez, The Addams Family
“Halloween is not only about putting on a costume, but it’s about finding the imagination and costume within ourselves.” Elvis Duran, Radio Show Personality
“It reeks of children!” Mary Sanderson, Hocus Pocus
“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.” William Shakespeare, Macbeth
“‘Tis the night—the night of the graves delight and the warlocks are at their play; Ye think that without the wild winds shout, but no, it is they—it is they.” Arthur Cleveland Coxe, American Writer
“She used to tell me that a full moon was when mysterious things happen and wishes come true.” Shannon A. Thompson, American Author
“On Halloween, witches come true; wild ghosts escape from dreams. Each monster dances in the park.” Nicholas Gordon, Poet
“There is something haunting in the light of the moon.” Joseph Conrad, Polish-British Writer
“Have you come to sing pumpkin carols?” Linus, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
