Drop Me a Halloween Line

Each set of words below is really a one-liner by a well-known person, but each individual word contains one extra letter. To solve, drop the correct letter from each word and then respace and punctuate the remaining letters. The letters dropped from the capitalized words can be anagrammed into the name of the author of the quote. The numbers in parentheses indicate the number of letters in the author’s first and last names.

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1. I'll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween. (Charles Swartz)👽

2. A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween. (Erma Bombeck - not someone I had heard of, so google must take credit for her name!)

Two scary solves!

Lex, Erma was "just" a housewife who had a very funny way with words. Her books made us all laugh at ourselves.

8. Proof of society's decline is that Halloween has become a broad daylight event for many - Robert Kirby (Who??)

3. There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. (George Carlin) 💀

Spooooky

9. Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend - Bill Watterson

I'll hold your hand, Cue.

That's so thoughtful of you, Sue

10. Ghosts were created when the first man woke in the night. James Barrie.

6. Being in a band you can wear whatever you want. It's like an excuse for Halloween every day ~ Gwen Stefani

7. We used to go around tipping outhouses or turning over corn shock on Halloween. - Loretta Lynn

Ghoulish solves!

5. If a man harbors any sort of fear, it makes him landlord to a ghost. (Lloyd Douglas) 👹

4. Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the spirits of things ~ Dee Snider 👻 👻 👻

Good solves!