Short StoriesNo. 9902 · The 2026 edition
Halloween
Enter the eerie world of Halloween through verse that chills and thrills.
Our own summary of the original — the full post and photos live at en.wikipedia.org.
This Halloween poem captures the spooky essence of the holiday, weaving imagery of ghosts, jack-o'-lanterns, and haunted nights into a lyrical celebration of all things eerie and fun.
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A Wikipedia article about 'Halloween', an 1785 poem by the Scottish poet Robert Burns. It covers the poem's composition, publication, structure and literary background, including its likely influence from an earlier Halloween poem by John Mayne. The page also reproduces an excerpt of the poem and Burns's own explanatory notes on its supernatural references.
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Halloween 1785
Poem by Robert Burns; published 1786 in the Kilmarnock Edition; twenty-eight stanzas mixing Scots and English; likely influenced by John Mayne's 1780 Halloween poem.
