'When Witches go riding, and black cats are seen'

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


"It's Halloween! It's Halloween!
The moon is full and bright
And we shall see what can't be seen
On any other night.
Skeletons and ghosts and ghouls,
Grinning goblins fighting duels,
Werewolves rising from their tombs,
Witches on their magic brooms.
In masks and gown we haunt the street
And knock on doors for trick or treat.
Tonight we are the king and queen,
For oh tonight it's Hallowen!"
--------------------------------------Jack Prelutsky, poet


"A grandmother pretends she doesn't
know who you are on Hallowen."

--------------------------------------Erma Bombeck, Humourist

"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, Playwright

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

"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, novelist

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

"When witches go riding, and black cats
are seen, the moon laughs and whispers,
'tis near Halloween."
-------------------------------19th century Halloween postcard

"The devil's voice is sweet to hear."
-----------------------------------------Stephen King, novelist

"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I
pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of
forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly
there came a tapping...."
------------------------------Edgar Allan Poe, Poet