'There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.'
–Jean Baudrillard  

'Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all evil things in the world will have full sway?'
–Bram Stoker, Dracula  

'In the middle of the journey of our life, I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.'
–Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy  

'Then he saw a sort of gray phosphorescence about, and guessed they were coming even to that inner world of subterranean horror of which dim legends dwell....'
—H. P. Lovecraft, The Dream-quest of Unknown Kadath  

'Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.'
–Sophocles, Oedipus Rex  

'Yet from those flames
No light, but rather darkness visible.'
–John Milton, Paradise Lost  

'The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?'
–Edgar Allan Poe, 'Premature Burial'