Halloween Quote Countdown
A different spooky quote a day until the 31st!
October 31 - Halloween!
Tonight! I'll plunder heaven blind, steal from all the gods.
Tonight! I'll take from all mankind, conquer all the odds.
And I feel I'll live on forever, with Satan himself by my side!
And I'll show the world that tonight and forever
The name to remember's the name Edward Hyde!
� Jekyll and Hyde: A Gothic Musical Thriller
October 30 -1 day to go!
This is Halloween, this is Halloween
Pumpkins scream in the dead of night
This is Halloween, everybody make a scene
Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright
It's our town, everybody scream
In this town of Halloween
� The Nightmare Before Christmas
October 29 - 2 days to go!
On mounting a rising ground, which brought the figure of his fellow-traveller in relief against the sky, gigantic in height, and muffled in a cloak, Ichabod was horror-struck on perceiving that he was headless! but his horror was still more increased on observing that the head, which should have rested on his shoulders, was carried before him on the pommel of his saddle!
� The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
October 28 -3 days to go!
Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world: now could I drink hot blood,
And do such bitter business as the day
Would quake to look on.
� Hamlet, Act III, Scene ii
October 27 - 4 days to go!
We�d better get inside, because it�ll be dark soon, and they mostly come out at night. Mostly.
� Aliens
October 26 -5 days to go!
Please allow me to introduce myself.
I�m a man of wealth and taste.
I�ve been around for a long, long year.
Stolen many a man�s soul and faith.
� The Rolling Stones
October 25 -6 days to go!
Denn die Todten reiten schnell.
(For the dead travel fast.)
October 24 - 7 days to go!
And the Raven, never flitting,
Still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door.
And his eyes have all the seeming
Of a demon�s that is dreaming
And the lamplight o�er him streaming casts his shadow on the floor.
And my soul, from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor,
Shall be lifted - Nevermore!
� Edgar Allen Poe, �The Raven�
October 23 -8 days to go!
He-e-e-e-re�s Johnny!
� Jack Nicholson, The Shining
October 22 -9 days to go!
Welcome to my nightmare. I think you�re gonna like it.
� Alice Cooper
October 21 -10 days to go!
�I hear you devils like a game of cards. So, what shall we play for?�
�His soul!�
�His whistle!�
�His teeth! I collect teeth!�
� The Soldier and Death, a fairy tale
October 20 -11 days to go, and B�la Lugosi�s Birthday!
Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.
� Dracula
October 19 -12 days to go!
�Is there any sign of ��
�Two small puncture wounds on the neck?�
�That�s not what I was gonna ask.�
�Too bad. We got �em. Check it out.�
� Scully and Mulder, The X-Files
October 18 -13 days to go!
Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd.
His skin was pale and his eye was odd.
He shaved the faces of gentlemen, who never thereafter were heard of again.
He trod a path that few have trod, did Sweeney Todd.
The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
� Sweeney Todd
October 17 -14 days to go!
I do not sleep, because if I do I have nightmares, and when you have a mind like mine you have nightmares that could petrify the Devil.
� Zastrozzi, Master Criminal of all Europe
October 16 -15 days to go!
The villagers of Little Hangleton still called it "The Riddle House," even though it had been many years since the Riddle family had lived there. Once a fine-looking manor, and easily the largest and grandest building for miles around, the Riddle House was now damp, derelict, and unoccupied.
� Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
October 15 -16 days to go!
From ghoulies and ghosties, and long-leggedy beasties
And things that go bump in the night,
Lord God protect us!
� Irish Prayer
October 14 -17 days to go!
Did you ever dance with the Devil in the pale moonlight?
I ask that of all my prey. I just like the sound of it.
� The Joker, Batman
October 13 -18 days to go!
This agengy stands flat-footed upon the ground, and there it must remain. The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply.
� Sherlock Holmes
October 12 -19 days to go!
Feed me, Seymour. Feed me all night long.
� Little Shop of Horrors
October 11 - 20 days to go!
"You must be Igor."
"It's pronounced EYE-gor."
"They told me it was EE-gor."
"Well, they were wrong then, weren't they?"
� Young Frankenstein
October 10 - 21 days to go!
I know this guy. This is a bad guy. Can we go now?
� Pike, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
October 9 - 22 days to go!
And whosoever shall be found
Without the soul for getting down
Must stand and face the hounds of hell
And rot inside a corpse's shell�
And though you fight to stay alive
Your body starts to shiver
For no mere mortal can resist
The evil of the thriller
� Vincent Price, in Michael Jackson's "Thriller"
October 8 - 23 days to go!
It's a trick. Get an axe.
� Bruce Campbell, Army of Darkness
October 7 - 24 days to go!
But soon with altered voice, said she--
�Off, wandering mother ! Peak and pine !
I have power to bid thee flee.�
Alas ! what ails poor Geraldine ?
Why stares she with unsettled eye ?
Can she the bodiless dead espy ?
And why with hollow voice cries she,
�Off, woman, off! this hour is mine�
Though thou her guardian spirit be,
Off, woman. off! 'tis given to me.�
� Coleridge, Christabel
October 6 - 25 days to go!
I am the gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles, the canker in the heart of the rose.
� The Vampire Lestat
October 5 - 26 days to go!
I love New York. Especially at Night!
� Frank Langella as Dracula
October 4 - 27 days to go!
It came to the edge of the fire and the light faded as if a cloud had bent over it. Then with a rush it leaped across the fissure. The flames roared up to greet it, and wreathed about it; and a black smoke swirled in the air. Its streaming mane kindled, and blazed behind it. In its right hand was a blade like a stabbing tongue of fire; in its left it held a whip of many thongs.
�Ai! ai!� wailed Legolas. �A Balrog! A Balrog is come!�
� The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkein
October 3 - 28 days to go!
I never drink wine
� Bela Lugosi, Dracula
October 2 - 29 days to go!
I know Leo G. Carroll was over a barrel
When Tarantula took to the hills
And I really got hot, when I saw Jeanette Scott
Fight a Triffid that spits poison and kills
� The Rocky Horror Show
October 1 - 30 days to go!
�I see,� said the vampire thoughtfully, and slowly he crossed the room towards the window.
� Interview with the Vampire
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