180 Spooky Halloween Captions to Share on Instagram if You Dare (2024)

After you finally settle on an epic costume and land on your favorite pics from all of the Halloween parties you’ve attended, chances are you may want to start deciding on the perfect Halloween captions to encapsulate the moment. That’s where we come in.

We’ve taken the time to collect a range of funny, cute, and spooky sayings for all of your photos. Whether you need a few words that will point to the beauty of the fall season or prefer a witty pun to elicit some laughs, you can depend on us to help you rake in all the likes.

Scroll on to find just the right words to match every kind of Halloween vibe.

• Let's get spooky.
• This is where the magic happens.
• Don’t worry we’re friendly ghosts.
• Warning: Black cat crossing.
• What's up, pumpkin?
• Howl about them apples?
• Felt spooky, might delete later!
• 3... 2... 1... Halloween!
• I'm only fully dressed if I have a wand.
• Wicked cute.
• Hocus Pocus and chill.
• Sweet like candy.
• Gourd vibes only.
• Time to get spooky!
• Glowing up this Halloween. 🎃✨
• Gone haunting.
• Welcome to my lair.
• Are you afraid of the dark?
• Scream queen.
• Pick your poison.
• What's up, pumpkin?
• Ghouls just wanna have fun!
• This witch can be bribed with chocolate.
• No tricks, just treats!
• Keep calm and scare on.
• Something wicked this way comes.
• Cutest pumpkin in the patch.
• Eat, drink, and be scary.
• Too cute to spook.
• Boo from the crew.
• Everything’s better with a little magic.
• Witchful thinking.
• Happy Howl-oween.
• Creature feature.
• A real witch is nothing without her ghoul friends.
• Too ghoul for school.
• Bad to the bone.
  
• Bugs and hisses.
• Having a boo-tiful night.
• This is where the magic happens.
• Brrr … it’s cold in here. There must be some spirits in the atmosphere!
• Keep calm and carry a wand.
• Mischief managed.
• Ready, set, ghoul!
• Absolutely fa-boo-lous.
• My broomstick runs on scares.
• #HotGhoulFall
• HalloQueen
• Mummy of the year.
• Have a fang-tastic Halloween.
• A better costume than me? That's just witch-ful thinking.
• Witch-ing you a very Happy Halloween!
• Have a Scary Halloween and Happy Boo Year!

• Maybe she’s born with it; maybe it’s the Halloween costume.
• I’m all about that pumpkin spice and everything fright!
• Black cat got your tongue?
• Nothing like a boo-sy evening.
• You say 'witch' like it’s a bad thing.
• Howl ‘bout them apples?
  
• Just clownin around.
• A little bit batty.
• Bone to be wild.
• This witch likes wine.
• Oh my gourd, Becky, look at her bat.
• Resting witch face.
• You better work, witch.
• Creep it real.
• Trick or treat yo’ self.
• Here for the boos.
• Witch better have my candy.
• Who run the world? Ghouls.
• I can't be held responsible for stolen candy.
• #SquadGhouls.
• Swish swish, witch.
• What’s up, witches?
• Ghostest with the mostest.
• Have a fa-boo-lous Halloween!
• You look better with the mask on.
• Don't make me get the flying monkeys.
• Had a bloody good Halloween.
• Life is gourd.
• Basic witch.
• We had a fang-tastic time!
• Have a spooktacular night.
• Fangs for the memories.
• Oh! I’m so sorry – I thought that was your costume.
• Bow down, witches.
• If the broom fits, fly it.
• Shake your BOOty.
• Not every witch lives in Salem.
• Trick or tequila.
• Feeling gourd, like I should.
• Catch treats, not tricks.
• Too gourd to be true.
• I'm feeling super fang-cy.
• Haunt mess alert!
• Goblin candy all night!
• Hot ghoul Halloween!

• Love at first bite!
• He's trapped in my web 🕸.
• You’ve got me under your spell.
• My Boo thang.
• Future momster.
• Just me and my zom-bae.
• I'm happy you didn't ghost me,
• I love you so much it’s scary!
• Thanks for always creepin' it real with me.
  
• Always a bloody good time with you.
• Hey Boo-tiful.
• I’d bone you.
• I love your guts.
• You make me batty.
• I’m batty about you.
• You’re a zombabe.
• We're all boo'd up.
• I only have pumpkin pies for you.
• You're the treat to my trick.
• I put a spell on you, and now you’re mine.
• The only person I want to go to Halloweentown with.
• Just call us the HalloQueen and PumKing.
• The Jack to my Sally.
• Just chilling with my Boo 👻.

• "It's showtime." —Beetlejuice
• "I am beautiful. Boys will LOVE me!" —Hocus Pocus
• "Don't look under the bed." — Don't Look Under the Bed
• "There are certain rules someone must abide by to survive a scary movie." — Scream
• "Halloween is cool!" – Halloweentown
• "It's all just a bunch of hocus pocus!" —Hocus Pocus
• "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes." —Macbeth
  
• "It's Halloween; everyone's entitled to one good scare." —Halloween
• "Magic is really very simple, all you've got to do is want something and then let yourself have it." —Halloweentown
• "Get in, loser. We're going haunting." —A play on Regina George's iconic line in Mean Girls
• "Being normal is vastly overrated." —Halloweentown
• "Never trust the living." —Beetlejuice
• "Be afraid, be very afraid." —The Fly
• "I see dead people." —The Sixth Sense
  
• "I am the pumpkin king!" —The Nightmare Before Christmas
• "I'm a ghost with the most, babe." —Beetlejuice
• "There’s only 365 days left until next Halloween!" —The Nightmare Before Christmas
• "Where my ghouls at?" —Monster High
• "I’m a mouse, duh." —Mean Girls
• "I would like, if I may, to take you on a strange journey." —Rocky Horror Picture Show
  
• "Whatever you do, don’t fall asleep." —A Nightmare On Elm Street
• "Hi! I'm Chucky. Wanna play?" —Child's Play
• "Oh look, another glorious morning. It makes me SICK!" —Hocus Pocus
• "It's alive!" —Frankenstein
• "Find the thing that must be read, lest your heart be filled with dread." —The Haunted Mansion
• "Each year, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch that he thinks is the most sincere." —It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

Halloween Captions Inspired by Songs

• "There’s a she-wolf in the closet. Open up and set it free, awooh!" —Shakira, She Wolf
• "I put a spell on you because you're mine." —Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
• "It's close to midnight, something evil's lurking from the dark." —Michael Jackson
• "This is Halloween, everybody make a scene." —Marilyn Manson
• "What's in your head?" —The Cranberries
• "I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed." —Rihanna
• "Who you gonna call?" —Ray Parker Jr.
• "They're creepy and they're kooky, mysterious, and spooky." —Andrew Gold
• "Scary monsters, super creeps keep me running, running scared." —David Bowie
• "Love is kind of crazy with a spooky little boy like you." —Dusty Springfield
• "She is like a cat in the dark. And then she is the darkness." —Stevie Nicks
• "Must be the season of the witch." —Donovan
  
• "I always feel like somebody's watching me." —Rockwell
• "Heads will roll ... on the floor." —Yeah Yeah Yeahs
• "When we all fall asleep, where do we go?" —Billie Eilish
• "Baby, I'm howlin' for you." —The Black Keys
• "I'm sweet but I'm psycho" —Ava Max

Halloween Captions Inspired by Quotes

• "Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas." — Stephen Graham Jones
• "It's as much fun to scare as to be scared." — Vincent Price
• "When we're together, darling; every night is Halloween" — The Addams Family
• "Double, double toil, and trouble.” —William Shakespeare
• "If you've got it, haunt it." —Rose Pressey
• "Every day is Halloween, isn't it? For some of us." —Tim Burton
• "Trick or treat, bag of sweets, ghosts are walking down the street." —Unknown
• "On Halloween you get to become anything that you want to be." —Ava Dellaria
• "Sticky fingers, tired feet; one last house, trick or treat!" —Rusty Fischer
• "Werewolves howl. Phantoms prowl. Halloween's upon us now." —Richelle E. Goodrich
• "Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story." —Mason Cooley
• "When black cats prowl and pumpkins gleam, may luck be yours on Halloween." —Unknown
• "Nothing on earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night." —Steve Almond
• "Beware what dare crawls up your sleeve, For ’tis the night called Hallows Eve." — Richelle E. Goodrich.
• "Oh how the candles will be lit and the wood of worm burn in a fiery dust. For on all Hallows Eve will the spirits come to play, and only the fruit of thy womb will satisfy their endless roaming." — Solange Nicole