{"quotes":[{"text":"...In the middle of the field, Harry suddenly stopped and looked back. Mr. Chad was all alone in the creepy woods. He could take care of himself...Couldn't he? Of course he could, he was a teacher.","author":"Connie Kingrey Anderson","tags":["children-s","connie-kingrey-anderson","creepy","halloween","mystery","reluctant-readers","spooky","toadies"],"id":16524,"author_id":"Connie+Kingrey+Anderson"},{"text":"Much later, Alice would wonder what might have happened if she had gone to bed when she was supposed to.","author":"Django Wexler","tags":["books","gothic","spooky"],"id":23220,"author_id":"Django+Wexler"},{"text":"I’ve seen how cigarettes went from being advertised in every type of media to being something found to be deadly… they can’t kill me no matter how many of them I smoke but I’ve seen humans die from smoking them… if I were you I would stop smoking them.”“Why should I? You smoke ‘em all the time, you chain-smoke cigarettes,” Mandy pointed out.“Yeah, I started doing that back in the Sixties… for reasons you likely saw on those VHS tapes… but I’m not a person, I’m Pollution, things like that aren’t dangerous to me but they are to you,” Alecto told her. “It’s not a good idea.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["anti-smoking","attack","blast-from-the-past","cancer","chain-smoke","cigar","cigarette","creepy","deadly","depress","depression","disturbing","education","eerie","gray","grief","haunting","health","horror","knowledge","loss","no-smoking","past","pollution","retro","scary","self-help","sick","smog","smoke","spooky","times","tobacco","trapped","vhs-tape","video"],"id":26558,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"At least I rescued your poor hot dog.","author":"R.L. Stine","tags":["burn","coming-of-age","disturbing","fire","frightening","funny","ghost","ghoul","gives-me-the-willies","goosebumps","grief","hot-dog","humor","laugh","lonely","lord","madness","nostalgia","pyrokinesis","rescue","savior","scary","sleepaway-camp","spooky","summer-camp","teen","teenage","wiener","wiener-roast"],"id":79771,"author_id":"R.L.+Stine"},{"text":"Come ye viewless ministers of this dread hour! Come from the fenny lake, the hanging rock, and the midnight cave! The moon is red – the stars are out – the sky is burning – and all nature stands aghast at what we do!","author":"William Mudford","tags":["nature","spooky"],"id":106884,"author_id":"William+Mudford"},{"text":"...Flames moved towards himand dropped within-singed and marred his tender skin ...(the frightful plight tale).","author":"Muse","tags":["conceptual","eerie","halloween","humor","jack-o-lantern","poem","poetry","prose","pumpkin","spooky","trick-or-treat","whimsical"],"id":108197,"author_id":"Muse"},{"text":"No harm,' he said as he danced on, cutting the air. Only now, the snowflakes began to bleed as he cut them. Battle of white and scarlet...'Oto-san, what can I do?' I wept in the dream, my tears freezing to my cheeks.'Dance,' he said, his face still and calm, his blade whistling through the air. Blood flew from the tip of the sword, painting characters of death and disaster across the white ground.Dancing.","author":"David Kudler","tags":["dreams","spooky"],"id":109149,"author_id":"David+Kudler"},{"text":"Would've been useful when I was about eight,' I said. 'I used to have wicked nightmares.' I did, too: stupid dreams about being chased by Elmo. A psycho Elmo with eyes like that Chucky doll. I'd wake up screaming and Vicky would come running in and ask what the nightmare was about. I never told her. I was too embarrassed.","author":"Robin Stevenson","tags":["childhood","chucky","creepy","doll","dream","elmo","embarrassing-moment","gives-me-the-willies","kid","nightmare","parent","psycho","puppet","sesame-street","spooky","stalker","wicked","young-adult"],"id":110492,"author_id":"Robin+Stevenson"},{"text":"But I love Halloween, and I love that feeling: the cold air, the spooky dangers lurking around the corner.","author":"Evan Peters","tags":["halloween","feeling","spooky "],"id":157664,"author_id":"Evan+Peters"},{"text":"Don't look shy if you wear rag and people gag, many are in the grave wearing skeleton, and you should even be happier for wearing a skin without clothes.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["alive","apparel","appearance","be-happy","cheerfulness","clothe","complain","complaining","death","disgrace","encouragement","gag","happiness","looks","michael-bassey-johnson","never-give-up","satisfaction","self-awareness","self-image","shut-up","skeleton","skin","spooky","taunt"],"id":181804,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":23,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}