POLL! Scary reading?

Since I've already asked about your favorite Halloween film, I'll steal a page from baylorsr and ask...

[Poll #597834]


And now, the Halloween quote from the day, "The Ballad of Nearly-Headless Nick":

It was a mistake any wizard could make
Who was tired and caught on the hop
One piffling error, and then, to my terror,
I found myself facing the chop.
Alas for the eve when I met Lady Grieve
A-strolling the park in the dusk!
She was of the belief I could straighten her teeth
Next moment she'd sprouted a tusk.
I cried through the night that I'd soon put her right
But the process of justice was lax;
They'd brought out the block, though they'd mislaid the rock
Where they usually sharpened the axe.
Next morning at dawn, with a face most forlorn,
The priest said to try not to cry,
"You can come just like that, no, you won't need a hat,"
And I knew that my end must be nigh.
The man in the mask who would have the sad task
Of cleaving my head from my neck,
Said "Nick, if you please, will you get to your knees,"
And I turned to a gibbering wreck.
"This may sting a bit" said the cack-handed twit
( As he swung the axe up in the air, )

"The Ballad of Nearly-Headless Nick" by J.K. Rowling
from the first draft of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets