No wonder many people dare not look closely at life: It's a horrible sight.

Yet, despite all, it is a difficult thing to admit the existence of ghosts in a coldly factual world. One's very instinc — Richard Matheson, Collected Stories, Vol. 2

A horror writer is one who is not only willing to look into the darkest of shadows...but to reach into them too. — Thomas Scopel, Twitch

It was as if the city itself was preparing for some impending catastrophe. There had always been talks of ghost and dark — K.J. Wignall, Blood

There is but a gentle stillness inside every cerebral. Tiny waterfalls of blood vessels rushing, becoming lethal. — Justin Bienvenue, The Macabre Masterpiece: Poems of Horror and Gore

Maloney looked around my room and nodded like he approved of the extravagance surrounding him: the inch-thick carpet wit — Craig Jones, Gem - No Loose Ends

Honey, you worry too much. Nothing is going to happen, I mean come on, you’re in the house of Mr. Hausefalle, the guru o — Mike Mauthor, House Trap

Franz said 'Your picture, Viki, suggests that sense of breaking-up we feel in the modern world. Families, nations, class — Fritz Leiber

The maddened four men followed frantically, for it is better to be in the presence of the awful than only within hearing — Stephen Crane, The Portable Stephen Crane

As I shivered and brooded on the casting of that brain-blasting shadow, I knew that I had at last pried out one of earth — H.P. Lovecraft

No one, none of us have rights. There is no destiny. We have responsibilities to ourselves and each other. We have respo — Brian Fatah Steele, Further Than Fate: five tales of post-mythic darkness

The place was silent and - aware. — P.C. Wren

$Noc knew that his girlfriend was better as he got to the door of Kay’s living room. This he could tell by the sound of her screaming at Turney for some infraction on the Son of Time’s part. He opened — Brian Fatah Steele, Petty Like A God$

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