If the creek predates the city deep in time, then is it right to identify the creek solely with the city? The city has forgotten the creek, as it’s forgotten those who walk its side,...

They told of dripping stone walls in uninhabited castles and of ivy-clad monastery ruins by moonlight, of locked inner rooms and secret dungeons, dank charnel houses and overgrown graveyards, of footsteps creaking upon staircases and...

Wendy?

I dreaded an invasion of ghosts or, less likely, an invasion of the police.

She smells like spring and flowers and rain, even though it’s winter. Sometimes, he thinks he loves her so much that his mind is unable to distinguish between love and obsession. Which is worse?

A place for the newly weds and nearly deads I’m counting the stones I hope you know I love you.Got a lot of friends 6 feet under us.Counting down the days till we join the...

Miss Millick wondered just what had happened to Mr. Wran. He kept making the strangest remarks when she took dictation. Just this morning he had quickly turned around and asked, “Have you ever seen a...

I was going to paddle barefoot upstream in Yorkshire, I’d wait until at least May before I tried it. But you go ahead, love. You’re clearly a Spartan lass.

His kiss was like no other! His kiss was enchanted and fairy-tale like. He applied pressure, but just enough to feel his tenderness and warmth. I could feel his heart beating wildly as he pressed...

Do you?

Boo: “Go talk to her.”Callum: “About what?”Boo: “Anything.”Callum: “You want me to walk up to her and say, ‘Are you a ghost?'”Boo: “I do that.”Callum: “I love it when you get it wrong.

Maybe before you die, it’s your ghosts you see.

Maybe all the people who say ghosts don’t exist are just afraid to admit that they do.

There are our ghosts,’ Smithers said.It was a word he liked to use, said Brewster. Like most of us Brewster had read a few ghost stories, and to him the word ‘ghosts’ summoned up the...

Horace, like all dogs, heard dead-voices quite often, and sometimes saw their owners.

Do ghosts drink tea?They don’t, said Tansey. But this ghost would love to see a cup of tea in front of her. It’d be lovely.

Everybody in my family believed in ghosts, and my grandma said it wasn’t just bad people who turned into them, it was bad deeds too.

Mrs. Rouncewell holds this opinion because she considers that a family of such antiquity and importance has a right to a ghost. She regards a ghost as one of the privileges of the upper classes,...

There’s so many kids,” he said low enough so only Jessica could hear. “We’re going to walk right into them in two more steps.”If it gave Jessica pause, he didn’t sense it. Instead she seemed...

Ghosts are invisible. So are people who are perfectly average. Be great or be greatless.

Every town has ‘THAT house’: the one that once held dark secrets. You know the house… the one no one will purchase? The one whose walls have seen blood? The one that even birds avoid,...

The morning heat had already soaked through the walls, rising up from the floor like a ghost of summers past.

And there has been no attempt to investigate it,’ I said, ‘to see what it really is?”Eh, Cornel,’ said the coachman’s wife, ‘wha would investigate, as ye call it, a thing that nobody believes in?...

Are you here about the infestation?”MacMillian stiffened. “I don’t… We aren’t-“Lena cleared her throat. “I’m afraid bugs aren’t really our specialty.””Not bugs.” The woman shook her head vigorously. “Ghosts. Whole place is crawling with ’em.

knowing deep inside some ghosts are too cruel to question

They said she killed herself.Everyone was saying It. What started out as a rumor, quietly whispered among small gatherings of polite people, quickly grew into something that was openly discussed in a large gatherings of...

It was once said that to hide something from prying eyes you must place it where people can see it.

After his experience with Minos, Nico realized that most spectres held only as much power as you allowed them to have. They pried into your mind, using fear or anger or longing to influence you....

Happy Hauntings; and, pleasant dreams!

In the great cities we see so little of the world, we drift into our minority. In the little towns and villages there are no minorities; people are not numerous enough. You must see the...