‘Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night!’
US writer Steve Almond

‘Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
Love leaves a memory no one can steal.’
From a headstone in Ireland

‘This Halloween I’m going as the ghost of our federal government.’
Unknown

‘I have friends who wear Star Wars costumes and act like the characters all day. I may not be that deep into it, but there’s something great about loving what you love and not caring if it’s unpopular.’
US Actress Kristen Bell

‘If a man harbors any sort of fear, it makes him landlord to a ghost.’
US Writer Lloyd Douglas

Horror films are where women can shine and have a chance to lead. They always save the day in these films.
Actress Sarah Michelle Gellar

‘My daughter said she’s gonna be a hoe for Halloween. I think it’s cute that she likes gardening.’
Anonymous

‘True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about but few have seen’
Author Unknown

‘May your Halloween be scarier than what’s actually going on with our country.’
Unknown

‘Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker’
Irish author Bram Stoker, from ‘Dracula’

‘Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.’
Bram Stoker, from ‘Dracula’

But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.
Famed Irish horror writer Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, from ‘Carmilla’

The farther we’ve gotten from the magic and mystery of our past, the more we’ve come to need Halloween.
Writer Paula Curran, from ‘October Dreams: A celebration of Halloween’

‘One need not be a chamber to be haunted,
One need not be a house,
The brain has corridors surpassing,
Material place.’
US Poet Emily Dickinson

‘To suffering there is a limit – to fearing, none.’
English Writer Sir Francis Bacon, Essays, from ‘Of Seditions and Troubles’

‘The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.’
US Writer, H. P. Lovecraft