God’s creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.

Do one thing for me, Sredni Vashtar.

That’s for me!” I already had a grim view of existence, so there was no problem there. I was and am agoraphobic, so being reclusive was a snap. The only challenge was whether or not...

I’m a man born to blood and pain, and peace would be a killing blow for me.

They want to control humankind through what they call selective breeding. The Nazis started it, but now the nwo are continuing it. See, the only way to control population is to first get it back...

Only I was capable of saving her now, and that, as far as anyone could argue, may have made me worse than all the devils and the demons, but it also, more accurately, made me...

Time is tick, tick, ticking away. How many souls will I capture today? Will they be a challenge or will they be given? Only time will tell as the clock keeps tick, tick, ticking. Your...

Julian tried to keep a pleasant smile on his face, though already it felt strained. He was uncomfortable with people who used the word blessed as a part of their everyday speech. The implication was...

The landscape had been so maimed by this new kind of warfare it was as if human architects of great genius had sat down to plan hell, since no two of them could agree on...

A Vampire?” I asked, feeling the touch of a smile form on my lips.

A man’s principles are his own. Man starts flip-flopping on what he believes based on outside influences and he may as well run for congress.

I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit.

Nevertheless, the potential and actual importance of fantastic literature lies in such psychic links: what appears to be the result of an overweening imagination, boldly and arbitrarily defying the laws of time, space and ordered...

There are two types of memory frequently experienced by individuals who have had overwhelming trauma that has been suppressed psychologically or chemically. The first is general memory, experienced as an adult, in which there is...

To be thoroughly conversant with Man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair

The ghosts that exert the most power in people’s lives-at least, the people I know–tend to be of their own making, and consist of equal parts regret and old fears and just plain missing somebody.

The wolf turned to Rachel. She was afraid to run, afraid fleeing would make it chase her. Somewhere in the stored files of her mind, she remembered one should not look directly at a menacing...

(W.D.) Howells asserted that the Americans’ ‘love of the supernatural is their common inheritance from no particular ancestry.’ Their fiction, he added, often gathers in the gray ‘twilight of the reason,’ on ‘the borderland between...

Science, the agent that once promised to eradicate the supernatural, had, through the nuclear threat, resurrected it. Magic was not exactly alive, but it was surely undead.

Even though we all know something,There is a lot more to it.

We did a Tarotcard reading. She told me different things, most of them depressing andworth forgetting. But what I’ll always remember is her prediction of mydeath, and how I’d become a kind of ghost, ‘wandering’...

The dead are the past and we cannot escape the past. Without the past there will be no future.

I went for the door and opened it, not wanting to see how much this corpse was willing to destroy to get into my bedroom. His body probably would’ve crumbled to pieces before he got...

It was a soulless gaze, burning with a wild hatred that shouldn’t be there in anyone who could call themselves a parent.

Observando a mi alrededor y escuchando a mis vecinos jamás pude oír hablar de un ser semejante a mí. ,Era, por lo tanto, un monstruo, una criatura de la que todos se alejarían con repugnancia...

She stared at her face in the mirror, feeling everything around her slipping away. The face stared back, and she wondered who was looking at her.

He reached the ground floor and flung the door open, fleeing into the street. He glanced back and saw that she wasn’t following, so he slowed to a halt. His pulse raced. The entranceway was...

A kiss is such an amazing thing — So simple, so complex. The only human act that gives while it receives. Mouth to mouth, it almost seems the eating of one another. Maybe that’s all...

Stare at him,” said Ghost. “They won’t bite you if you keep staring at them.”Steve backed away. “They bite?”Not really. They hiss at you, mostly. The only time geese are ever dangerous is when you...

We are born. We die. Somewhere in between we live. And how we live is up to us. That’s it.

Her voice was small and distant, like she’d already left the room.

Have a look around, my pretty, we are surrounded by Death in all forms – just the two of us are still alive –

Thank you! Most people don’t notice me!”I turned back to her and smiled, our eyes locked. Her glasses were thick, and they magnified her eyes several times. It was strange looking at them, but I...

Rena: Come on. Who was that man?Keiichi: I-I don’t know him!Rena: Liar. What were you talking about?Keiichi: S-S-Something that doesn’t have anything to do with you!Rena: Oh…Ah-ha-ha. Oh. So it has nothing to do with...

The Element of Surprise is their in every day,It’s when you wake up.

You have the right to remain silent,’ the big cop said in his robot’s voice. ‘If you do not choose to remain silent, anything you say may be used against you in a court of...

You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don’t have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn’t mean they apply to you.

…Don’t be surprised, and I say it darkly, do not be surprised if you lose your Luke in this cause; perhaps Mrs. Dudley has not yet had her own mid morning snack, and she is...

Bruises and dried blood covered her face, giving the illusion of chicken pox.

Despite their displays of bravado, young boys can be peculiarly susceptible to atmosphere(“Between Four Yews”)

What do you want?”She doesn’t answer him, staring cold and blank through those stark white bars, and then she was scrambling toward him across the floor, making him press flat against the wall to get...

For he felt about the whole affair the touch somewhere of a great Outer Horror – and his scattered powers had not as yet had time to collect themselves into a definite attitude of fighting...

Sometimes good people do bad things.

If that other fellow doesn’t know his happiness, well, he’d better look for it soon, or he’ll have to deal with me.

The crow cawed again overhead, and a strong sea wind came in and burst through the trees, making the green pine needles shake themselves all over the place. That sound always gave me goose bumps,...

The truth of the matter is 200 points is orderly. I think 900 is going to be a horror show. I don’t want to be in that day.

You could say that they were sweet, or you could say that they were something out of a horror movie.

Eu só sonho horrores hilários.

I have a new nickname for Dottie. She’s now the Crazy Whisperer.

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.