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

—Jean Baudrillard

"Horror is the removal of masks."

—Robert Bloch

"Tis now the very witching time of night,

When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out

Contagion to this world."

—William Shakespeare

"Fear has many eyes and can see things underground."

—Miguel de Cervantes

"We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones."

—Stephen King

See the connections? Write your guesses in the comments, and check in next Wednesday to find the headlines that inspired these pairings.

Images: The Frisky, ExtraTV, The Awl, New Haven Independent, Meteorology News

Answers to last week's installment:

• "Paraplegic Survives Desert Stranding" (Newser)
• "Things You Can Be on Halloween Besides Naked!" (Emotistyle)
• "Lindsay Lohan Steals Clothes from Scary Movie 5 Set" (Perez Hilton)
• "The A-hole in the Mirror" (Slate)
• "'Cloud Atlas' Director Lana Wachowski on Coming-Out Speech: 'It Was Just the Universe Saying I Should Do It'" (Hollywood Reporter)

Bright red shirt. Big belly. Thick black suspenders. Open Hawaiian shirt. Hands me a two-faced nickel and explains how a friend of his makes them. Then asks:

"Do you think you'll use it as a conversation piece?"

Image: coincommunity.com

Today, news sources across North America are watching as Hurricane Sandy bears down on the eastern seaboard.

Mexico, which has been spared the brunt of the storm, "se solidariza con afectados por hurácan Sandy."

And according to Canada's Globe and Mail, our neighbors to the north are gearing up for "a bit of a mess."

Image: Jay Karr, startribune.com