OCTOBER SPOOKFEST: LOOKING FOR SPOOK QUOTES?
Hej Messmate, why don’t you come ride at anchor with me here on Quarterdeck while Sir Bear is busy cooking up a feast and the Ship’s Belle is trying out spooky drink recipes?
I thought we could slĂĄ vĂĄra kloka huvuden ihop (smash our clever noggins together), as we so eloquently put it in Scandi, and go on a scary Spook Quote hunt together. Just imagine it, you and me, creating a carefully curated cornucopia of eerie exclamations and utterly unsettling utterances. It’ll be fun!
We can go on a journey that spans time and space, from the relentless raven in Poe’s poetic masterpiece, to the ancient draugr that haunt our frozen fjords. Heck, we can even take it all the way to modern-day alien invaders that disrupt American college campus Halloween parties and far away into the future.
Anything that raises the hackles and rattles the bones will be a good fit, I think. And let’s search high and wide – not just in books, but in films and other media too.
In Literature
“Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.” — Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, Dylan Thomas
“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” — Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
In Poetry
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
— The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe
Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.
— Because I Could Not Stop for Death, Emily Dickinson
In Folk Tales
Men saw that a great draugr had come into the churchyard, and people became very scared, because he wrought mischief at night, but in the daytime he lay down beneath a gravestone and hid himself. — The Saga of the People of Eyri” (“Eyrbyggja Saga”), a 13th-century Icelandic saga
“The banshee never wailed for such as they; the banshee wailed only for the great families, the true blood of the Gael.” — Irish Folklore
In Plays & Films
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder’s fork and blind-worm’s sting,
Lizard’s leg and howlet’s wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
— Macbeth, William Shakespeare
“I’m your number one fan.”
— Misery, Stephen King (adapted for film)
In Modern Media
“I see dead people.” — The Sixth Sense, M. Night Shyamalan
“No one can hear you scream.” — Alien, tagline from Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979)
Question of the Day
Well, that was fun! I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. Now, the question of the day is:
- Got a quote the gives you chills?
Send it to me at news@aswewrite.com and I’ll add it to the page.
//Linn 🤍