Beware the Autumn People.

“Beware the autumn people… For some, autumn comes early, stays late through life…For these beings, fall is the ever normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from? The dust. Where do they go? The grave. Does blood stir in their veins? No: the night wind. What ticks in their head? The worm. What speaks from their mouth? The toad. What sees from their eyes? The snake. What hears with their ear? The abyss between the stars. They sift the human storm for souls, eat flesh of reason, fill tombs with sinners. They frenzy forth. In gusts they beetle-scurry, creep, thread, filter, motion, make all moons sullen, and surely cloud all clear-run waters. The spider-web hears them, trembles- breaks. Such are the autumn people. Beware of them.”

– Ray Bradbury, “Something Wicked This Way Comes”

I read the the book Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury when I was a kid. It scared the living hell out of me. I was worried that the "Autumn people" were going to come and steal my soul. When I was a little older and I saw the film I loved how spooky they got the tone. It still scared me but I was more fascinated by the Autumn People then frightened. The creepy Mr. Dark and his spooky circus. The super eerie "spider-lady". They were all so creepy and wonderful.