I loved anything spooky, mysterious, or frightening.

...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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,…

— William Shakespeare

I'm not usually where I think I am. It's kind of spooky.

— Laurie Anderson

Under none of the accredited ghostly circumstances, and environed by none of the conventional ghostly surroundings, did I first make acquaintance with the house…

— Charles Dickens

Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it's like an excuse for halloween everyday.

— Gwen Stefani

“I thought that there could be no revolt against nature. I accepted the landscape without dreaming that, behind, there still prowled large skeletons without…

— Roger Vitrac

There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old…

— Charles Dickens

All fanmail is a bit of fun. We do get some nice letters and some fanatical mail too. There's one woman who thinks me…

— Peter Andre

He was sailing over a boundless expanse of sea, with a blood-red sky above, and the angry waters, lashed into fury beneath, boiling and…

— Charles Dickens

For a long time, no village girl would dress her hair or bosom with the sweetest flower from that field of death: and after…

— Charles Dickens

Most Americans know nothing about the African forest, and it seems to them a very scary, spooky dangerous place. I've spent a lot of…

— David Quammen

For me, writing something in the spirit of Halloween is like Mother Teresa writing on charity and sacrifice. It's just second nature to me.

— Danny Elfman

Batman is dark and moody and spooky and, in some cases, methodical.

— Paul Dini

“Come ye viewless ministers of this dread hour! Come from the fenny lake, the hanging rock, and the midnight cave! The moon is red…

— William Mudford

“I’m a mother. You name it, I’ve seen it and probably had to mop it up,” said Lucy.”

— Leslie Meier