88 Best Halloween Messages and Wishes to Share this Spooky Season

October is right around the corner, and with it come visits to the pumpkin patch, apple picking, and, if you live in a four-season environment, vibrant fall foliage and sweater weather. But, we’re also looking forward to the costumes, candy, scary home decor, and the spookiness of it all.

Are you ready for the “Happy Halloween!” messages on greeting cards, signage, and Instagram captions starting October 1st? We certainly are, but this year we also want to diversify our celebratory messages. That's why we’ve created a list of Halloween wishes that you can reference when looking for creative ways to celebrate this month. From cute, funny, and of course, scary, this list has a message for any vibe you’d like to go for this spooky season.

After you find the perfect Halloween message, make sure to check out our favorite Halloween jokes, Halloween puns and Halloween fun facts to make this one of your most entertaining holidays yet!

• Wishing you a "fa-boo-lous Halloween!
• Welcome to the Boo Crew!
• Wishing you a scarytale ending this Halloween!
• Trick or treat! I got your costume beat.
• A pumpkin a day keeps little ghosts away.
• Have a spooktacular Halloween.
• Happy Hallo-wine!
• Cats say meow, ghosts say boo, happy Halloween to you!
• Here's to less tricks and more treats this Halloween.
• Park your broom and sit for a spell!
• Orange, black and green, there’s mischief brewing this Halloween.
• Today’s the day to eat candies and sweets to your heart’s content! Happy Halloween!
• Eat, drink and be scary!
• I hope you get lots of trick-or-treaters this year. Unless, of course, you’d prefer to keep all the candy for yourself.
• Witch-ing you a spook-tacular Halloween!
• You are the scariest werewolf I have ever seen. Happy Howl-oween!
• Hope you have as much fun today as the ghost who has been haunting your house.
• This letter is sealed with a vampire bite.
• The dead rise again, bats fly, terror strikes and screams echo, for tonight it’s Halloween.
• If the werewolves are breaking out the extra body conditioner, it must be Halloween.
• Have a killer Halloween!
• When the dark night appears and everything turns evil, just remember it’s Halloween!
• A candy a day keeps the monsters away.
• I witch you a happy Halloween, I hope it doesn’t suck like a vampire.
• I wave my wand and put on my cape and wish you lots of treats coming your way. Happy Halloween!
• Wishing you an eerie, spooky, hair-raising, spell-binding Halloween!
• This October, may your treats be many and your tricks be few. Hope you have a sweet Halloween.

• May the witching hour begin!
• It's time. Monsters, come out to play!
• May chills run down your spine this Halloween.
• Here’s hoping all your Halloween fears come true.
• Skulls and mice and everything nice.
• May the monsters appear and the candy disappear.
  
• Silent night. Here's to lots of fright.
• By the glow of the moon, ghosts will float soon.
• Witches are scary. Vampires are a fright. Beware of both this Halloween night.
• Michael Myers with his creepy eyes; Jason, Freddy, Pennywise. As you look out your window and they all draw near, don’t be afraid – Halloween is here!
• When black cats prowl and pumpkins shine, when shivery shivers run down your spine, when ghosts and goblins ring the chime, beware and be scared – it’s Halloween time!
• Ghosts and goblins, spooks galore, scary witches at your door, jack-o-lanterns smiling bright, wishing you a haunted night.
• The witching hour has begun.

• Happy sweet tooth day!
• Happy Halloween! You look boo-tastic.
• Happy hauntings!
• You're sweeter than a full-sized candy bar!
• Happy Halloween! I love you just boo-cause.
• You've got the most spooktacular costume I've ever seen!
• May your candy supply last you well into the Christmas season.
• Pumpkins, candies, spiderwebs and creepy costumes. Halloween is finally here! Now get out there and scare them away. Happy Halloween!
• Wishing you a Halloween full of treats! Remember that if you eat them all at once, you may turn into a green monster.
• So much candy, so little time.
• Tonight, I am wishing you an unforgettable Halloween adventure filled with creepy memories and deadly encounters. Happy Halloween!
• Wishing you the best Halloween sugar high.
• I love you just boo-cause.

• May your birthday be full of tricks and treats!
• Happy birthday to my favorite ghoul-friend!
• Have a fangtastic birthday!
• Happy birthday to boo!
• May your birthday be filled with fun, chills and thrills, but most importantly lots of candy!
• Happy boo-thday!
• Trick-0r-treat, smell my feet, hope your birthday is extra sweet.
• Wishing you a magical day!
• May your Halloween birthday be less terrifying than aging!
• Hope your birthday leaves you smiling like a jack o' lantern!
• Pumpkins are blazing! Hope your Halloween birthday is amazing!
• Is there anything scarier than getting a year older?
• Here’s a wish for a special someone who shares a birthday with ghosts, witches and vampires. You are still way cooler. Happy birthday!
• I hope your Halloween birthday makes you scream with excitement!
• Happy birthday! Hope your day doesn't "suck" like a vampire.
• Happy birthday! May all your witches come true!

• “Be careful what you wish for, especially during the season of the dead.” — Byrd Nash, “Delicious Death”
  
• "It’s just a bunch of hocus-pocus.” — A.W. Jantha, “Hocus Pocus & The All New Sequel”
• "It’s Halloween! It’s Halloween! The moon is full and bright and we shall see that can’t be seen on any other night.” — Jack Prelutsky, “It’s Halloween”
• “‘Tis the night — the night of the grave’s delight.” — Arthur Cleveland Coxe, “Halloween: A Romaunt”
• "Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story." — Mason Cooley
• "I am the pumpkin king." — The Nightmare Before Christmas
• "There’s a little witch in all of us." — Practical Magic
• "This is Halloween, everyone scream!" — The Nightmare Before Christmas
• "Spooky, scary skeletons send shivers down your spine." — Andrew Gold, "Spooky, Scary Skeletons”
• "Halloween is not only about putting on a costume. It's about finding the imagination and costume within ourselves." – Elvis Duran
• "It’s Halloween; everyone’s entitled to one good scare." — Halloween
• "Men say that in this midnight hour, the disembodied have power." – William Motherwell
• "Werewolves howl. Phantoms prowl. Halloween’s upon us now." – Richelle E. Goodrich
• "There is magic in the night when pumpkins glow by moonlight." — Unknown
• "Sticky fingers, tired feet; one last house, 'trick or treat!'" – Rusty Fischer
• "I love Halloween, and I love that feeling: the cold air, the spooky dangers lurking around the corner." —Evan Peters
• "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes." –William Shakespeare
• "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here." — Dante Alighieri
• "Monsters are real, ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win." — Stephen King
• "Believe nothing you hear and only half of what you see." — Edgar Allan Poe

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