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Chuck Palahniuk • Make Something Up
realms whose mere existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the black extra-cosmic gulfs it throws open before our frenzied eyes.
H. P. Lovecraft • H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction
Can you believe he’s still alive, in a bungalow, in Bournemouth? I’ve been to visit him, made a few things happen – ectoplasm, electrical failures, horrible noises in the night. He’s so stupid he doesn’t notice. He’ll be dead soon and then I’ll make his life hell.’
Jeanette Winterson • Night Side of the River
There have been things seen and done here which leave strange influences behind! They don’t touch you, doubtless, who come of another race. But they touch me, often, in the whisper of the leaves and the odour of the mouldy soil and the blank eyes of the old statues. I can’t bear to look the statues in the face. I seem to see other strange eyes in t
... See moreSusie Boyt • The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories
A large, pale moth fluted around the room and alighted on the rim of the lampshade, imprinting its shadow on the wall. I reached over to flick it away, but my hand was stayed by a voice in my head. The souls of the people we once loved, come to watch over us.
The House Of Doors, Tan Twan Eng
song. Strangers had searched their house and taken anything they pleased. The wooden faces of the policemen and their lack of response were the worst, though, far more unsettling than the TV lights and the
Stephen King • The Outsider
Then I saw it tilt its head ever so slightly to the side, all by itself. There was a moment of coldness, like the entire room had dropped twenty degrees. I tried to take a breath, but I couldn’t move. Then it was gone.
Peng Shepherd • The Book of M: A Novel
The night was full of life and motion; leaves and branches touched, making tiny sighs. Singing insects droned in the trees overhead; everywhere the bright beetles flashed.