Turn The Lights Down Low

Halloween is the perfect night to gather by the light of a lone candle or to sit by the flickering flame of a log fire and conjure up creepy images of ghosties and ghoulies, long-leggetie beasties, and things that go bump in the night.

Poetry can make an excellent mood-setter for your ghostly gatherings, and below you will find some really atmospheric and spooky poems to get your Halloween celebrations well and truly underway.

There are poems about ghosts and witches, spirits and specters, dead men coming back to avenge themselves upon the living, and numerous other nefarious and creepy scenarios.

When reciting these poems, it is suggested that you turn the lights down low - or, even better, switch them off altogether - and light a candle! Ensure that some suitably creepy music is playing softly in the background, and then start reading the poems aloud in a low, dramatic voice.

Let the words of each of the poems enthrall you, and let their suggestions of mysterious forces lurking in the darkness around you awaken those long-suppressed primeval fears.