Never tease anything that wants to eat you.” Reign of Blood

N-no doubt.” I smirked again.

Smiling, he handed Landry the bloody aluminum bat Warnick had used. ‘Time to die, old man,’ he said.

I don’t know why I told you all those things, but I did. Maybe it was because I’m a drunk, and sometimes drunks like to confess.

The night beyond the window was still, mordant white snow, punctuated only by the eerie dark of the trees, gumshoeing their way along the edge of the path outside. Their skeletal fingers clawed up at...

Lucy in the sky. Without her I am the walrus, likely to lose myself in dark gibberish and fade away.” Lance Underphal, Cut-Throat Syndrome.

Did you ever think it won’t be the undead who kill us, but ordinary people?

Irwin was difficult to wake; the poor man was totally wiped out. He collapsed in one of the soft office chairs the moment Smith let him, sliding back into slumber. After he was settled, I...

What I learned in this tragedy was the eternal lesson of good people going bad.

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

Despite what you think you know, most people don’t want to fight, especially when evenly matched. … That’s why you see those pissed young men doing the dance of “don’t hold me back” while desperately...

There’s a little angel on one of my shoulders saying that this is a wicked thing to do. Then there’s a little devil on my other shoulder, and she looks a lot like you.

When I lifted up the skin, a fat kidney worm dripping with gore raised its bald, blind head and glared at me.

The horror of what I saw chilled me to the bone. Blood glistened on my friend’s lips. He knelt down and whispered something I could not hear. Star then stopped attacking, and to lay down...

Insects crawled across my skin, legs skittering across my flesh, numbed paths of cold left in their wake. They were the creatures that heralded my ghosts, and I knew them well, yet the revulsion they...

You don’t die of a broken heart, it only wears you down—just another rainy day.” – Grey Daze

If you’d saved the girl, you’d be a hero. Next time.

My eyes meet his and I understand exactly what he’s saying. He’s my person. He’s my home.

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

For an instant I saw before me the young girl this used to be.

MISSION ONE ACCOMPLISHED. The next challenge was bringing in online gamers to join him on his crusade. How was he going to convince online gamers to leave the privacy of their virtual world to work...

In my experience, people who want to keep their painful injuries are using them as a crutch. They’re hiding from something.

There’s nothing worse than delivering bad news to women. I hoped I wouldn’t get good at it.

She had fire dancing in her eyes as she assaulted him with her serpent’s tongue. Tonight she was not his wife but his little sister.

I imagined her poised, a humerus in one hand, a toothbrush in the other, as she gently brushed away the last remnants of the person who had once used that arm to shake hands, open...

I don’t have expensive tastes – just bloody ones.– Vampire Dragul Mangorian

But I was still determined to protect her. It might be the one good thing I would ever do in my life. I wondered if God would even notice.

What is your secret? What could you possibly know, more than 80 years after you death, that someone doesn’t want us to find out?

This place is Hell’s waiting room.

‘Eighth one this week,’ he said.

Woodward, Bernstein, and Lucy,” Lucy corrected.

If you mean to scare women away from you, that speech can’t possibly work. Those threats? If I weren’t trying to hire you I’d be taking my clothes off right now.

This guy was a humorless bag of nothing but.

In the distance, steel-blue mountains loomed heavy on the horizon, their shoulders burdened with the same accursed snow the gods were currently depositing upon the lowlands. Between us and the mountains, the vast expanse of...

I’ve spent a large portion of the last 40 years hunting Dragons because of you. Be flattered, disturbed… Whatever floats your boat.Tiberius of Triad C.O.A series

Even now I can’t describe the fear that contaminated my blood like black ink.

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.

There’s no better way for a woman to punish a man than to make him sleep away from her.

I was a spectator who had gotten free admission to a freak show.

Sometimes the truth is so bizarre and mind bending that it must be presented as fiction to be accepted.George SaundersThe Bookseller

He wasn’t gullible enough to be bullied by the ghost’s accusation – for Andrew Fletcher had his share of guilt, but he’d never thrown anyone down a well, either.

She gave herself a hard twist and fell into a sitting position, staring at me with those maggot-filled doll’s eyes.

A shade flickered to my left, an eerie shadow balanced even more precariously on the railing than I. Her plimsolls struggled to grip the same rail my fingers now held. I knew her face, just...

Fear is a prison in which we place ourselves. You need only to press against the bars to realize that the door is always unlocked, and you are always free to leave.

I turned to her, my whole body hard with tiredness and regret.

My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I’m well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath…He’s always,always in my...

You shouldn’t have done that, Dave.

I’m not a bad person.

I know, Dee, fuck, do I know that. I’m just telling you how it goes. The party line—what we told people when they asked.

She sensed her own power to enslave him. He would come willingly enough. No filthy atheistic beliefs she held were strong enough to douse what was crackling in the brief space between them. It would...