Where there is no imagination there is no Horror.

 —Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr

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

 —Emily Dickinson

A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.

 —Erma Bombeck

Those seemingly interminable dark walks between houses, long before street-lit safety became an issue, were more adrenalizing than the mountains of candy filling the sack. Sadly Halloween, with our good-natured attempts to protect the little ones, from the increasingly dangerous traffic and increasingly sick adults, has become an utter bore.

 —Lauren Springer

Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one can possibly want and hold.

 —Judith Olney

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

—William Shakespeare

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.

 —Conan O’Brien

Last night you were, unhinged. You were like some desperate, howling demon. You frightened me… Do it again.

—Morticia Addams

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

 —Jean Baudrillard

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

From ghoulies and ghosties /And long-leggedy beasties / And things that go bump in the night, / Good Lord, deliver us!

 —Scottish blessing