ScrapSayings, Halloween

  • Abandon all hope ye who enter here - Dante's Divine Comedy

  • Abracadabra

  • All Hollows Eve

  • Angel Baby

  • Anxiety Alley

  • Are you a good witch, or a bad witch? = Glinda in The Wizard of Oz

  • Bats in your belfry

  • Best start believin' in ghost stories (Miss Turner); YOU'RE IN ONE!
    - Pirates of the Caribbean

  • Beware! Beauty and the Beast lives here.

  • Bewitched Brew / Witches Brew

  • Bibbity Bobbity Boo

  • Black cats, bats, candy corn, Jack-o-lanterns, scarecrows, ghosts, goblins, witches, warlocks, wizards, haunted houses, cob webs, spiders, ghouls, and monsters … that's what great Halloweens are made of!

  • Blood and gore, creepy crawly, vampires, Frankenstein, The Mummy, Werewolf, Count Dracula, zombies, the living dead, horror, chills, the haunting, wicked, ghouls, screams, terror, aliens, cold tomb stones, hearse

  • Blood Curddling Screams

  • Boneman

  • Boo Bash

  • The BOO crew!!

  • Boys and Ghouls

  • Brace yourself for the Ex-FEAR-ience!

  • Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble - Shakespear, MacBeth

  • Bubbling/Cooking Cauldron

  • CANDYLAND /Candy Heaven

  • Carving our memories

  • Cast a spell

  • Cast of Thousands

  • Cauldron Bubble

  • Chamber of Horrors

  • Chills and Thrills

  • Come as you aren't

  • Costumes on Parade

  • Count down to Candy

  • Count Scary (character created by Tom Ryan-Detroit Radio DJ)

  • Crazy Creatures

  • Creepy Crawly

  • Curious George a curious little monkey

  • Danger Ahead! Enter at your own RISK!! Turn Back Now !!!

  • Dragon Whisperer

  • Deader than a door nail

  • Deadly Intentions

  • Demon's are a Ghoul's best friend

  • Ding Dong, the Witch is/isn't Dead! From The Wizard of Oz

  • Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble.
    - Shakespear, MacBeth

  • Enter at your own RISK!

  • The Eyes have it! (glasses/glowing eyes in the dark)

  • Ex- FEAR-ience!

  • Extreme Scream

  • Feeling Groovy/Ghoully/Ghostly

  • Fraidy Cats Welcome! (Black Cats border)

  • Franken-tastic!

  • Free Broom Rides

  • Freeky Fright-day

  • From ghoulies and ghosties and long leggety beasties and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us! - A Cornish prayer

  • From the Boo Crew

  • Fight Night

  • Funky Frankenstein

  • Ghost of Good Cheer

  • Ghost Stories

  • Ghosts and Ghouls,

  • Ghosts and goblins, Spooks galore, Scary Witches at your door.
    Jack-O-Lanterns Smiling Bright , Wish you a Happy Haunting Night.

  • A Ghostly Gathering/Parade

  • Gloomy Ghosts (Chalk white ghosts on a black background-popping out of pictures)

  • The Ghoul (created for Detroit late night horror movie show)

  • Ghouls Rule

  • Goosebumps

  • The Great Pumpkin rises up from the pumpkin patch and gives toys to good little girls and boys. - Linus - Charlie Brown TV special

  • The Grateful Dead (zombies, skeletons, ghosts)

  • Grizzy Ghouls

  • Gruesome Twosome

  • Hair Raising / Raise the hair on the back of your neck / Hair standing on the back of your neck

  • Halloween Haunting

  • Happy Haunting Ground

  • Harvest Season

  • The Haunted

  • The Haunted Barn / Castle / Cemetery / Farm / Graveyard / Hayride / House / Mansion / School

  • A Haunting We Will Go!

  • Haunting Of Terror

  • He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up. - Paul Keating

  • Heads Will Roll!!

  • Here lies [name and dates] They looked much better dead than they ever looked alive. (Tomb Stone)

  • Here lies [name and dates] We didn't really like him when he was alive. (Tomb Stone)

  • Horrific Halloween

  • Howl-O-Ween

  • The Howling

  • A Howling Good Time

  • How Boo-tiful! (Ghosts)

  • Hurray for Halloween

  • I am lion[any animal] hear me roar![what ever sound they make]

  • I do believe in spooks, I do, I do, I do - the Lion in The Wizard of Oz

  • I'll get you my pretty! And your little dog too!! - the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz

  • I've created a MONSTER!!

  • I've got my eyes on you! (googly eyes)

  • I've put a spell on you!

  • It's witchcraft.

  • Jeepers Creepers - Where 'ja get those peepers?
    - Al Donohue/Johnny Mercer (eye balls in the dark or in the bushes)

  • Jolly Jack-o-lanterns

  • Just Say BOO!!!

  • Just tell them Boris sent you. - Monster Mash - Bobby Pickett

  • Let's scare up some fun!!

  • A Little Batty

  • Little Buck-a-roo (cowboy/girl costume)

  • Look out!!! Their lurking all about!!!!

  • Lots of creatures were stirring

  • Magic Spells while you wait.

  • Magic Wand

  • Makes my skin crawl

  • Making SPIRITS bright (ghosts)

  • Many Levels of Horror!

  • Mayhem

  • Monsters Incorporated / Monsters Inc.

  • Monster Mash - It was a graveyard smash. -Bobby (Boris) Pickett

  • Monster Mash

    I was working in the lab late one night.
    When my eyes beheld an eerie sight.
    And my monster, from his slab began to rise.
    And suddenly to my surprise…
    He did the mash! He did the monster mash!
    He did the mash! It was a graveyard smash!
    He did the mash! It caught on in a flash!
    He did the mash! He did the monster mash!

    From my laboratory in the castle east,
    to the master bedroom where the vampires feast.
    The ghouls all came from their humble abode,
    to get a jolt from my electrode.
    They did the mash! They did the monster mash!
    They did the mash! It was a graveyard smash!
    They did the mash! It caught on in a flash!
    They did the mash! They did the monster mash!

    The zombies were having fun, the party had just begun.
    The guests included Wolfman, Dracula and his son.
    The scene was rocking, all were digging the sound.
    Igor on chains backed by his baying hounds.
    The Coffin Bangers were about to arrive,
    with their vocal group The Crypt-kicker Five.
    They played the mash! They played the monster mash!
    They played the mash! It was a graveyard smash!
    They played the mash! It caught on in a flash!
    They played the mash! They played the monster mash!

    Out from his coffin Drac's voice did ring.
    Seems he was troubled by just one thing.
    He opened the lid and shook his fist
    and said,"Whatever happened to my Transylvania Twist?"
    It's now the mash! It's now the monster mash!
    It's now the mash! And it's a graveyard smash!
    It's now the mash! It caught on in a flash!
    It's now the mash! It's now the monster mash!

    Now everything's cool Drac's a part of the band.
    And my monster mash is the hit of the land.
    For you, the living,this mash was meant too.
    When you get to my door, tell them Boris sent you.
    Then you can mash! Then you can monster mash!
    Then you can mash! And do my graveyard smash!
    Then you can mash! You'll catch on in a flash!
    Then you can mash! Then you can monster mash!

    -Bobby Pickett

  • Monster Mayhem

  • Monsters, Spooks, and Ghouls oh my!!!

  • The Munsters (TV show of the 1960s, still in reruns. Fred Gwin, Evonne DeCarlo)

  • Near Death Ex-FEAR-ience

  • The next scream you hear may be your own. - Alfred Hitchcock

  • Night Crawlers/stalkers

  • The Night of the living dead

  • The old ball and chain

  • OOOOzz and Gooo

  • Our head scarer

  • Out of the Muck and Mier

  • Owl-O-Ween

  • A Parade of Ghosts and Goblins, Creepies and Crawlies

  • Pick me a Perfect Pumpkin Please (emphasize the P's)

  • Pick of the patch (pumpkin or strawberry)

  • Psycho-Path

  • Psycho Ward - we're all crazy here

  • Pumpkin Hunting/Picking

  • Rattle them bones

  • Ready Set Glow/BOO!

  • R.I.P. Rest in Peace (tomb stone)

  • Runnin with the devil.

  • Scare Central

  • Scare Factory

  • A scare is born.

  • Scare Tactics

  • Scared your pants off!

  • Science Fiction Greats: Ray Bradbury, Karl Sagan, Jules Vern, Anne McCaffrey, Isacc Asimov, Larry Niven, Arthur C. Clark, Ursula Leguin.
    Suspense and Horror Writers: Edgar Allen Poe, Steven King, Turman Capote, Mary Shelley, Alfred Hitchcock, The Brothers Grimm, Homer, Peter Benchley, Bram Stoker, Michael Crichton.

  • Screem-Fest

  • Screem Seekers

  • Scramblin' Spiders

  • Shivers up and down your spine

  • Slime Time

  • Something wicked this way comes - Ray Bradbury

  • Spell-Binding / Spell-ectible (witches spells)

  • Spookable / Spooooooked! / Spoooktacular! / Spooooky! / Spooktastic!

  • Stephen King and Edger Allan Poe would be proud.

  • Stop eating that candy, you're going to be sick!

  • Strolling through the graveyard.

  • Terror-ific

  • Terror Twosome

  • The Terror Zone

  • That old black magic has got me in it's spell.
    That old black magic that you weave so well.
    Those icy fingers up and down my spine.
    The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine

  • Them bones, them bones just walk around!

  • There is magic in the night when pumpkins glow by moon light/candle light.

  • This is SCARY STUFF!

  • Things that go bump in the night.

  • Those icy fingers up and down my spine.

  • Thriller - Michael Jackson

    It's Close To Midnight And Something Evil's Lurking In The Dark
    Under The Moonlight You See A Sight That Almost Stops Your Heart
    You Try To Scream But Terror Takes The Sound Before You Make It
    You Start To Freeze As Horror Looks You Right Between The Eyes,
    You're Paralyzed

    'Cause This Is Thriller, Thriller Night
    And No One's Gonna Save You From The Beast About to Strike
    You Know It's Thriller, Thriller Night
    You're Fighting For Your Life Inside A Killer, Thriller -- Tonight

    You Hear The Door Slam And Realize There's Nowhere Left To Run
    You Feel The Cold Hand And Wonder If You'll Ever See The Sun
    You Close Your Eyes And Hope That This Is Just -- Imagination
    But All The While You Hear The Creature Creepin' Up -- Behind
    You're Out Of Time

    'Cause This Is Thriller, Thriller Night
    There Ain't No Second Chance Against The Thing With Forty Eyes
    You Know It's Thriller, Thriller Night
    You're Fighting For Your Life Inside Of Killer, Thriller Tonight

    Night Creatures Call
    And The Dead Start To Walk In Their Masquerade
    There's No Escapin' The Jaws Of The Alien This Time
    (They're Open Wide)
    This Is The End Of Your Life

    They're Out To Get You, There's Demons Closing In On Every Side
    They Will Possess You Unless You Change The Number On Your Dial
    Now Is The Time For You And I To Cuddle Close Together
    All Thru The Night I'll Save You From The Terror On The Screen,
    I'll Make You See

    That This Is Thriller, Thriller Night
    Cause I Can Thrill You More Than Any Ghost Would Dare To Try
    Girl, This Is Thriller, Thriller Night
    So Let Me Hold You Tight And Share A Killer, Diller, Chiller
    Thriller Here Tonight

    (Performed By Vincent Price)

    Darkness Falls Across The Land
    The Midnite Hour Is Close At Hand
    Creatures Crawl In Search Of Blood
    To Terrorize Y'awl's Neighborhood
    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
    The Foulest Stench Is In the Air
    The Funk Of Forty Thousand Years
    And Grizzy Ghouls From Every Tomb
    Are Closing In To Seal Your Doom
    And Though You Fight To Stay Alive
    Your Body Starts To Shiver
    For No Mere Mortal Can Resist
    The Evil Of The Thriller

  • To understand the reason…why we carry on this way And we're lost in this masquerade - George Benson

  • Too Cute to Spook

  • Toto, I have a feeling that we're not in Kansas anymore. - dorothy, when she wakes up in the land of Oz

  • Trick or Treat/Trick or Treaters are Welcome

  • Trick or Treat! Give me something good to eat. Give me candy. Give me cake. Give me something sweet to take! / Gave such a tummy ache!

  • Trick or Tweet (bird costume - Tweety bird)

  • Tunnel of Terror

  • The Walking Zombies

  • Warning! Warning! An Alien is coming!

  • What a great night for FRIGHT!!!

  • A Wicked Witch Lives Here - Beware!!!!

  • Wicked Witches

  • Witchful Thinking

  • Witches Brew / Bewitched Brew

  • Witches Rest Stop - Prop up your brooms here.

  • Witches Spells, Incantations, and Curses While You Wait

  • The Witching Hour

  • Witchy Woman

  • Would you like one eye-of-newt or two? (a witches tea party)

  • You little monster you!

  • You sweeten my life.

  • Yum Yum -- give me some!! / Yum Yum -- eat it up!

  • Zombie Zoo

Jokes:

  • Q: Where does Dracula water ski?
    A: On Lake Erie

  • Q. Why couldn't Dracula's wife get to sleep?
    A. Because of his coffin.

  • Q. What monster flies his kite in a rainstorm?
    A. Benjamin Frankenstein

  • Q. Who did Frankenstein take to the prom?
    A. His ghoul friend.

  • Q. Where do baby ghosts go during the day?
    A. Day scare centers

  • Q: What does a ghost eat for lunch?
    A: A BOO-logna sandwich.

  • Q. What do ghosts serve for dessert?
    A. Ice Scream

  • Q. How did the ghost fix his sheet?
    A. With a pumpkin patch.

  • Q: What did the Mommy ghost say to the baby ghost?
    A: Don't spook until your spooken to!

  • Q. What kind of mistakes do ghosts make?
    A. Boo boos

  • Q: Why do ghouls and demons hang out together?
    A: Because demons are a ghoul's best friend!

  • Q. What kind of cereal do monsters eat?
    A. Ghost-Toasties (Post Toasties was a cereal from the 60's. Now we have Count Chokula, Frankenberry, and Booberry, so the joke is more truth than fiction.)

  • Q. What kind of monster is safe to put in the washing machine?
    A. A wash and wear wolf

  • Q. Why wasn't there any food left after the monster party?
    A. Because everyone was a goblin!

  • Q. What's a monster's favorite play?
    A. Romeo and Ghouliet

  • Q. Why did the monster eat a light bulb?
    A. Because he was in need of a light snack

  • Q: Mommy, mommy are there such things as mummies?
    A: Yes, dear. Now wrap your bandages tightly, it's cold out side.

  • Q. Why can't mummies keep friends?
    A. They're too wrapped up in themselves.

  • Q. Why do mummies make excellent spies?
    A. They're good at keeping things under wraps

  • Q: What do you get when you drop a pumpkin?
    A: Squash

  • Q: What do you get when you divide the circumference of a jack-o-lantern by it's diameter?
    A: Pumpkin Pi

  • Q: Why did the jack-o lantern look so scared?
    A: Because he lost all his guts.

  • Q. What do skeletons say before they begin dining?
    A. Bone appetite !

  • Q. Who won the skeleton beauty contest?
    A. No body!

  • Q: Why didn't the skeleton cross the road?
    A: He didn't have the guts.

  • Q: Why don't skeletons date?
    A: They don't have any body to go out with.

  • Q: Mommy, mommy the kids say I'm a werewolf?
    A: It's ok dear, but make sure you brush your face.

  • Q: Why did the witches' team lose the baseball game?
    A: Their bats flew away

  • Q: What was the witches favorite subject in school?
    A: Spelling

  • Q: How does the silly witch know what time it is?
    A: She looks at her witch-watch.

  • Q. Why don't witches like to ride their brooms when they're angry?
    A. They're afraid of flying off the handle!

  • Q. What do witches put on their hair?
    A. Scare spray

  • Q: Mommy, mommy am I a vampire ?
    A: What a silly question and make sure you brush your fangs!

  • Q: Where did the vampire open his savings account?
    A: At a blood bank

  • Q: Do Zombies eat candy with their fingers?
    A: No, they eat the fingers separately.

See also: the Munsters Alphabet Poem.