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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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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'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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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 disembodièd have power
To wander as it liketh them,
By wizard oak and fairy stream.
~~ William Motherwell
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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go
Back to their quiet graves below.
~~ Theodosia Garrison
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