'There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.' –Jean Baudrillard
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'Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all evil things in the world will have full sway?' Bram Stoker, Dracula
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'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
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'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
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'Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.' Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
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'Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.' –John Milton, Paradise Lost
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'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'