Spooky Quotes

“Welcome to my house! Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring!”

Bram Stoker

“The dominant spirit, however, that haunts this enchanted region is the apparition of a figure on horseback, without a head.”

Washington Irving

“And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain thrilled me - filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before.”

Edgar Allan Poe

“True! - nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?”

Edgar Allan Poe

“I am Dracula; and I bid you welcome.”

Bram Stoker

“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.”

“Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, whiles night's black agents to their preys do rouse.”

“Angels and ministers of grace defend us!”

“Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.”

“All hope abandon, ye who enter in!”

Dante Alighieri

“Listen to them - the children of the night. What music they make!”

Bram Stoker

“And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.”

Edgar Allan Poe

“Halloa! Below there!”

Charles Dickens

“Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up.”

The Bible (Job 4:15)

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair: hover through the fog and filthy air.”

“'Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out contagion to this world.”

“Light thickens, and the crow makes wing to the rooky wood.”

“To be buried while alive is, beyond question, the most terrific of these extremes which has ever fallen to the lot of mere mortality.”

Edgar Allan Poe

“Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore.'”

Edgar Allan Poe

“The dead travel fast.”

Bram Stoker

“Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!”

Arthur Conan Doyle

“Let me in - let me in!”

Emily Bronte

“Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home, your house is on fire and your children are gone.”

Mother Goose

“Cool it with a baboon's blood, then the charm is firm and good.”