Halloween is the one night a year when the costume is half the fun, and whether you’re celebrating over the weekend or on the actual night of Oct. 31, you shouldn’t let it arrive unprepared.
One thing you should definitely be getting ready to do is sharing all of your favorite spooky images from the evening on Instagram—and what’s an amazing photo without the perfect caption?
We’ve definitely got Taylor Swift on the mind, which is why we’ve collected 35 of Taylor’s most haunting and Halloween-appropriate lyrics of all time for your captioning needs. Plenty are made for costume posts, from ghosts and witches to skeletons and vampires, and the moodier ones double as spooky-season captions the rest of the year.
For flaunting your terrifying costume:
“People look at me like I’m a monster. Now they’re screamin’ at the palace’s front gates.”
-“Castles Crumbling”
For moving forward from a dark time in life:
“I thought my house was haunted. I used to live with ghosts.”
-“Opalite”
For trying not to let your mood ruin Halloween:
“When my depression works the graveyard shift, all of the people I’ve ghosted stand there in the room.”
-“Anti-Hero”
For when the Halloween night is still young:
“I whisper in the dark, ‘Where we gonna go?'”
-“I Think He Knows”
For hanging out with ghouls on Halloween:
“Well, me and my ghosts, we had a hell of a time.”
-“Florida!!!”
For running away from haunted house monsters on Halloween:
“Wasn’t it beautiful running wild ’til you fell asleep before the monsters caught up to you?”
-“Innocent”
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For going door to door:
“Trick me once, trick me twice.”
-“Karma”
For prepping for your holiday celebrations:
“And it’s about to be Halloween.”
-“Ronan”
For when you’re both dressed like specters:
“But if he’s a ghost, then I can be a phantom.”
-“…Ready for It”?
For the spooky graveyard on Halloween:
“I’d meet you where the spirit meets the bones.”
-“ivy”
For that spooky throwback post:
“Ghosts from your past gonna jump out at me.”
-“Ours”
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For the fall oranges and reds that set the scene for the holiday:
“Autumn leaves fallin’ down like pieces into place.”
-“All Too Well”
For your favorite moment from the haunted house tour:
“I think your house is haunted.”
-“seven”
For hanging out with ghouls and specters:
“My beloved ghost and me sitting in a tree.”
-“How Did It End?”
For your late-night haunting:
“I wake in the night, I pace like a ghost.”
-“The Archer”
For when a special someone makes you feel less afraid:
“Quiet my fears with the touch of your hand.”
-“Death by a Thousand Cuts”
For you and your vampire squad:
“‘Cause baby, now we’ve got bad blood.”
-“Bad Blood”
For the scariest Halloween zombies:
“What died didn’t stay dead.”
-“marjorie”
For when everyone’s after your witchy costume:
“And women like hunting witches too.”
-“man woman”
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For haunting the streets:
“I miss who I used to be. The tomb won’t close.”
-“Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve”
For going out as the undead:
“Honey, I rose up from the dead, I do it all the time.”
-“Look What You Made Me Do”
For enjoying the spooky fall festivities:
“I hear your laugh and look up smiling at you, I run and run past the pumpkin patch and the tractor rides.”
-“The Best Day”
For dressing as a skeleton:
“All we are is skin and bone.”
-“Treacherous”
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For when your costume is not so dangerous as you are:
“‘Cause, darling, I’m a nightmare dressed like a daydream.”
-“Blank Space”
For a squad of ghosts:
“If you live like that, you live with ghosts.”
-“Bad Blood”
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For scaring your friends on purpose:
“You know I didn’t want to have to haunt you, but what a ghostly scene.”
-“my tears ricochet”
For enjoying the thrills of the season:
“Yes, I’m haunted, but I’m feeling just fine.”
-“Florida!!!”
For snacking on all the Halloween candy:
“Sweet like honey, karma is a cat.”
-“Karma”
For hanging out with Halloween skeletons:
“And I know I’ll pay for it and the skeletons in both our closets.”
-“cowboy like me”
For being a scaredy-cat on Halloween:
“But the monsters turned out to be just trees.”
-“Out of the Woods”
For bringing witchy vibes:
“They’re burning all the witches, even if you aren’t one.”
-“I Did Something Bad”
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For your frightening bloody ensemble:
“I looked around in a blood-soaked gown.”
-“Bad Blood”
For the terrifying moment you can’t get out of your mind:
“I guess sometimes we all get some kind of haunted.”
-“Midnight Rain”
For the haunting ghostly figure:
“Now that I’m grown, I’m scared of ghosts.”
-“Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve”
For transforming into a spooky ghost:
“Can’t turn back now, I’m haunted.”
-“Haunted”
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