Bram Stoker on Halloween

No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.

The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.

For the dead travel fast.

Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble.

William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (1605), Witches, Scene IIn context

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 owlet’s wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (1623), In: Medical Arena, Volumes 7-8, 1898, p. 122In context

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

Jean Baudrillard1929–2007“Astral America” (p. 48)