Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
- - -Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to.
- - -Richard Harris Barham

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On Hallowe’en the thing
you must do
Is pretend that nothing
can frighten you
An’ if somethin’ scares you
and you want to run
Jus’ let on like
it’s Hallowe’en fun.
- - - from an Early Nineteenth Century Halloween Postcard

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Just like a ghost, you’ve been a-hauntin’ my dreams,
So I’ll propose on Halloween.
Love is kinda crazy with a spooky little girl like you
- - - from Anonymous

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This Halloween the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask.
And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him.
- - - from Anonymous

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‘Tis the night - the night
Of the grave’s 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

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One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.
- - - Emily Dickinson

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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it makes him landlord to a ghost.
- - - Lloyd Douglas

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Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen,
Voices whisper in the trees, “Tonight is Halloween!”
- - - Dexter Kozen

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Fear is nature’s warning signal to get busy.
- - - Henry C. Link

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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest
and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
- - - H. P. Lovecraft

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Be wary then; best safety lies in fear.
- - - Shakespeare “Hamlet”

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Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble.
- - - Shakespeare “Macbeth”

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Hark! Hark to the wind! ‘Tis the night, they say,
When all souls come back from the far away-
The dead, forgotten this many a day!
- - - Virna Sheard

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From ghoulies and ghosties and long leggety beasties and things that go bump
in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!
- - - Scottish saying

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Men say that in this midnight hour,
The disembodie`d have power
To wander as it liketh them,
By wizard oak and fairy stream.
- - - William

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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below.
- - -Theodosia Garrison

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‘Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world.
- - -William Shakespeare

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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children
is increased with tales, so is the other.
- - -Sir Francis Bacon, Essays [1625], “Of Death”

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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
- - -Sir Francis Bacon, Essays [1625], “Of Seditions and Troubles

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For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light
sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark
hold in terror and imagine will come true.
- - -Titus Lucretius Carus [99-55 B.C.], De Rerum Natura, bk. III, l. 87

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There is a sacred HORROR about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills;
but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece,
seen too near, is appalling.
- - -Victor Hugo

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The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life—
the terror of art.
- - -One of the best quotes by Franz Kafka

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From ghoulish and ghosties and long leggety beasties and things that go bump in the night,
Good Lord, deliver us!
- - - Scottish saying

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Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s
sting, Lizard’s leg, and owlet’s wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth
boil and bubble.
- - -William Shakespeare (a quote from “Macbeth”)

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Bring forth the raisins and the nuts- Tonight All-Hallows’ Specter struts Along the moonlit way.
- - -John Kendrick Bangs

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