🎃 2025 Halloween Treasure Hunt - hints for clue 8

Jack-o-lantern 8

Paranormal investigation, haunted by desperation
Friendship made among shades is fleeting.
The picnic is gloaming, whose hand were you holding,
Do the walls stand silent or screaming?
While katydids dream, the phantasms scheme.
Do journeys end in lovers meeting?

(Zeph)

22 Aquila : For #8 I googled the phrase katydids dreaming - and I did have to google it, duck duck go had nothing - and eventually found something that led to it.

63 Maddz : Look at line 5

69 karenb : {In Duck Duck Go use} the exact phrase in 22 Aquila. (I made that same mistake!)

73 karenb : Okay, revised hint for #8: search Common Knowledge for katydids dream.

74 amanda4242 : I got it by clicking on titles tagged horror until I found the right one, but that will no doubt help other people.

95 amanda4242 : Major spoiler for #8: No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

98 mr.philistine : I found #8 quite by accident! I attempt to retrace my footsteps here... I found 'Lists' on the LT homepage or was it the LOTM in the right hand panel? The first title sorted by rank seems to be it. ;)

99 Charon07 : I thought “whose hand were you holding” was a dead giveaway for #8!

179 atozgrl : Same here. It was one of the few I knew without having to do an online search. That quote was one of the lines from the 1963 movie version that really stuck with me.