The circumstances of our lives are pieces of a larger scheme in the puzzle of life, and in His Perfect Wisdom, the pieces fit.

what do you mean the old bodies get reused?

That the earth in its course stood still; that a she-ass spoke; that a storm was quieted by a word, we do not believe, and we shall never again believe.

If this is going to be my last day on earth, I do not want it to be socially awkward.

As has already been noted, fantastic literature developed at precisely the moment when genuine belief in the supernatural was on the wane, and when the sources provided by folklore could safely be used as literary...

Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole.

N-no doubt.” I smirked again.

Preston Black couldn’t sleep the whole night through, Preston Black couldn’t sleep the whole night through. He’d lay in bed ’til the morning came, but the devil’d visit him just the same. Preston Black couldn’t...

I had lied to myself from the very beginning, deceived myself into believing that I was being fanciful and overly imaginative. Surely such monstrosities only existed in nightmares? Yet I had lived through a nightmare...

Calm down. Ghosts don’t ring the doorbell.

But I find it necessary to repeat in this particular place that the division into classes, which is so salient a part of modern demonology, had, and has, little significance for primitive man or for...

Why should I be sad? Everyone has to die. If you have a body, it’s too late to cry. It’s only funerals I can’t stand.

We’ve determined that Ms. Hauptman is a potential threat to the public safety, and we are bringing her in as a murder suspect who has supernatural powers that make her too dangerous to be incarcerated...

Engaging spirits isn’t an elitist ability or industry, it’s being active in the connection with All Things. It’s innate to us all.

He doesn’t have a soul?” she shrieked, horrified.”That explains why he’s such a dick,” Tree muttered.

Hell had frozen over and I was lost in its endless labyrinth.

Do not be alarmed if they look paler than the other maidens of Greece. They are scarcely of this Earth, and seem to be shaking off the sleep of a past life.

Impressive,” Court offered, gallantly bending to retrieve the shoe. “You should join the theater.””Fuck you.””I owed you that.””Revenge is a dish best served with a side of handcuffs and a hard ass-fucking. Remember that.”Really is...

Oh my god! Madison, what is with you and non-human guys?

I try to never miss the Zumba class since I believe comedy is a great way to start your week….It was great fun, although I had to hold myself back from turning it into a...

faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.” In other words, no man is religious who does not govern his conduct in some measure by the fear or love of God. On the...

Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.

Urban survival rule 22: Never annoy an armed man.

Sit. Wait.”Did I mention werewolves were chatty?

Martha Ridgley had been a single, working-class woman with no children or close family. Her killer had never been caught, and her case was eventually forgotten.But not by everyone—not by whoever had been paying the...

I don’t think I could ever see her closely,” the sentinel replied, “however close she came.” His own voice was hushed and regretful, echoing with lost chances. “She has a newness,” he said. “Everything is...

Don’t ever apologize for us.

A Kiss”:I went to snatch my hand away, but Trent caught my hand in his, startling me. I looked up to see warmth on his face. His smile held the promise of happiness. He scooted...

Here’s the thing,” I said. “I’m not going to be the government’s bitch.

The world was healing itself.

In lieu of Tasers, you’ll have to hit me. Hard as you can. Then maybe some kind of fight-or-flight response will kick in and I’ll turn into a bat to get away from you.””Fight or...

Nothing supernatural has ever harmed me. My wounds and losses have all be at the hands of human beings…

A child’s imaginary playmate just might actually be there.

After I’m dead, I want to ghostwrite my autobiography.

Wow! It’s like magic! she exclaimed.Simon shook his head. “It’s God’s love. That’s stronger than any magic.” – The Demon Trapper’s Daughter

My passion is to see ordinary believers receive extraordinary answers to their prayers.

The supernatural Christ of the New Testament, the god of orthodox Christianity, is dead. But priestcraft lives and conjures up the ghost of this dead god to frighten and enslave the masses of mankind. The...

The images start to darken and she feels another hunger well up in her, this one having to do with another kind of desire. The desire to feed, to possess, and the aggressive thrill of...

The world is thinner in some places.

His right ear still held both studs, and I wondered who had the missing earring. I would have asked, but was afraid he’d tell me Ivy had it.

Good evening, you poor little Orphans of a Loveless God. Good evening to you blood sucking fools.

And in any case…there are no more supernatural noises nowadays…

But a smell shivered him awake.It was a scent as old as the world. It was a hundred aromas of a thousand places. It was the tang of pine needles. It was the musk of...

Nil Sine Magno Labore (“Nothing without great effort”) –Motto of Brooklyn College

My name is one best whispered in terror in a dark corner.

I don’t differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural.

It’s said that the shuffling of the cards is the earth, and the pattering of the cards is the rain, and the beating of the cards is the wind, and the pointing of the cards...

Fantastic literature has been especially prominent in times of unrest, when the older values have been overthrown to make way for the new; it has often accompanied or predicted change, and served to shake up...

The 27th letter has always been my favorite letter of the alphabet. But, then, I also love ghost stories, invisible beings, the supernatural, and Bigfoot. Just ask The Mythical Mr. Boo, who’s first name begins...

Psychic change, as Todorov has recognized, subverted the genre in another way, by revoking the cultural taboos, the social censorship, that had prohibited the overt treatment of psychosexual themes, which then found covert expression in...