ByTL;DR: Searching for the most spine-chilling quotes to set the Halloween mood? Here are the creepiest lines from literature, movies, and the Bible.
Are you ready to face the things that go bump in the night? Halloween isn’t just about costumes and candy. It’s also the time when words can send chills down your spine.
Whether it’s from a classic novel, a horror movie, or even the Bible, certain quotes can stir up real fear.
But sometimes, finding the scariest quotes can be hard. They’re scattered across books, movies, and even ancient texts. You may know they’re out there, but can’t quite remember them.
It’s frustrating when you’re trying to set the mood, and those words just won’t come to mind.
That’s why I’ve put together a collection of Halloween’s scariest quotes from literature, movies, and even the Bible.
These quotes will make your skin crawl, perfect for your spooky night.
How Did I Discover the Scariest Halloween Quotes from Literature That Gave Me Chills?
- “Hope not ever to see Heaven. I have come to lead you to the other shore; into eternal darkness; into fire and into ice.”
Inferno (Dante Alighieri)
- “Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
Robert Bloch
- “I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest – expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there’s nothing there, not even a beat.”
American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis)
- “Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
- “Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.”
I Am Legend (Richard Matheson)
- “Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.”
Macbeth (William Shakespeare)
- “O little one,
My little one,
Come with me,
Your life is done.
Forget the future,
Forget the past.
Life is over:
Breathe your last.”
Abarat (Clive Barker)
- “Some teeth long for ripping, gleaming wet from black dog gums. So you keep your eyes closed at the end. You don’t want to see such a mouth up close. Before the bite, before its oblivion in the goring of your soft parts, the speckled lips will curl back in a whinny of excitement. You just know it.”
The Ritual (Adam Nevill)
- “There are horrors beyond life’s edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man’s evil prying calls them just within our range.”
The Thing on the Doorstep (H.P. Lovecraft)
- “Walls have ears.
Doors have eyes.
Trees have voices.
Beasts tell lies.
Beware the rain.
Beware the snow.
Beware the man
You think you know.”
Songs of Sapphique (Catherine Fisher)
- “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
The Tempest (William Shakespeare)
- “We ask only to be reassured
About the noises in the cellar
And the window that should not have been open.”
The Family Reunion (T.S. Eliot)
- “Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore.
‘Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,’ I said, ‘art sure no craven,
Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore –
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!’
Quoth the Raven, ‘Nevermore.’”
The Raven (Edgar Allan Poe)
- “Last night I saw upon the stair,
A little man who wasn’t there,
He wasn’t there again today
Oh, how I wish he’d go away…”
Antigonish (William Hughes Mearns)
- “The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door…”
Knock (Fredric Brown)
- “Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, sells ’em off for a coupla stones.”
The Diviners (Libba Bray)
- “I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.”
The Haunting of Hill House (Shirley Jackson)
- “Blood is really warm,
it’s like drinking hot chocolate
but with more screaming.”
Zombie Haiku (Ryan Mecum)
- “God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemblance. Satan had his companions, fellow devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorred.”
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
- “People who die bad don’t stay in the ground.”
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
- “That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.”
The Nameless City (H.P. Lovecraft)
- “The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance;
We find delight in the most loathsome things;
Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings,
And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.”
Charles Baudelaire
- “The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination, made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a living thing by pain, danced like some foul puppet on a stand and grinned through moving masks.”
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
- “I don’t like to look out of the windows even – there are so many of those creeping women, and they creep so fast. I wonder if they all come out of that wallpaper, as I did?”
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
- “All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.”
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
- “Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we’re opened, we’re red.”
Books of Blood (Clive Barker)
- “Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense that within it you could brush against appalling things and feel roaming and prowling around a strange, mysterious horror.”
The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant (Guy de Maupassant)
- “But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.”
Carmilla (J. Sheridan Le Fanu)
- “We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can’t avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really be proofs that the whole of life is a dream, and the moon and stars bits of nightmare.”
The Terror (Arthur Machen)
- “In the dark shadow of the grove, on the margin of the brook, he beheld something huge, misshapen, black, and towering. It stirred not, but seemed gathered up in the gloom, like some gigantic monster ready to spring upon the traveller.”
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Washington Irving)
Which Halloween Movie Quotes Were So Scary They Left Me Sleeping with the Lights On?
- “We all float down here… you’ll float too.”: It
- “When there’s no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.”
Dawn of the Dead
- “Save your tears. I’ll reap your sorrow slowly. I have centuries to discover the things that make you whimper.”
Hellraiser
- “One, two, Freddy’s coming for you
Three, four, better lock your door
Five, six, grab your crucifix
Seven, eight, gonna stay up late
Nine, ten, never sleep again.”
A Nightmare on Elm Street
- “Be afraid. Be very afraid.”
The Fly
- “A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.”
Silence of the Lambs
- “I see dead people.”
The Sixth Sense
- “When the Jews return to Zion
And a comet rips the sky
And the Holy Roman Empire rises,
Then you and I must die.
From the eternal sea he rises,
Creating armies on either shore,
Turning man against his brother
‘Til man exists no more.”
The Omen
- “Sometimes dead is better.” Pet Sematary
- “Do you want to know why I use a knife? Guns are too quick. You can’t savor all the… little emotions.” The Dark Knight
- “Oh yes, there will be blood.” Saw II
- “I met this six-year-old child with this blank, pale, emotionless face, and the blackest eyes… the devil’s eyes. I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then another seven trying to keep him locked up because I realized that what was living behind that boy’s eyes was purely and simply evil.” Halloween
- “You’re going to die up there.” The Exorcist
- “Diabolical forces are formidable. These forces are eternal, and they exist today. The fairy tale is true. The devil exists. God exists. And for us, as people, our very destiny hinges upon which one we elect to follow.” The Conjuring
- “You’ve seen horrible things. An army of nightmare creatures. But they are nothing compared to what came before. What lies below. It’s our task to placate the Ancient Ones. As it’s yours to be offered up to them. Forgive us. And let us get it over with.” The Cabin in the Woods
- “They’re coming to get you, Barbara.” Night of the Living Dead
- “I know now that my wife has become host to a Kandarian demon. I fear that the only way to stop those possessed by the spirits of the book is through the act of… bodily dismemberment.” The Evil Dead
- “Have you checked the children?” When a Stranger Calls
- “They’re all going to laugh at you!” Carrie
- “We all go a little mad sometimes.” Psycho
- “I’m scared to close my eyes, I’m scared to open them! We’re gonna die out here!” The Blair Witch Project
- “What have you done to him? What have you done to his eyes, you maniacs!” Rosemary’s Baby
What Are the Most Terrifying Halloween Quotes from the Bible That I Never Expected to Find?
- “Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.” Revelation 13:18
- “And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched.” Mark 9:43
- “And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth.” Revelation 12:3-4
- “Samaria shall become desolate; for she hath rebelled against her God: they shall fall by the sword: their infants shall be dashed in pieces, and their women with child shall be ripped up.” Hosea 13:16
- “And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking toward those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.” Luke 21:25-26
- “And out of the smoke locusts came down on the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth; They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads; They were not allowed to kill them but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes; During those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.” Revelation 9:3-6
- “And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.”Revelation 6:8
