When witches go riding,
and black cats are seen,
the moon laughs and whispers,
‘tis near Halloween.
Anonymous
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
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
Tis the night – the night
Of the grave’s delight…
Arthur Cleveland Coxe
Where there is no imagination there is no horror. Arthur Conan Doyle
And graves have yawn'd, and yielded up their dead...
And ghosts did shriek and squeal about the streets.
William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
Deep night, dark night, the silent of the night,
The time of night when Troy was set on fire;
The time when screech-owls cry and ban-dogs howl,
And spirits walk and ghosts break up their graves...
William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part II
'Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet