“We ask our brain to stop worrying, stop obsessing, stop dreaming the same scary dreams again and again. But our brain rarely… — Dan Poblocki Copy Share Image
“No woman will ever take care of my children but me, she said. I will not allow it, do you understand? And… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
“There must be something ghostly in the air of Christmas — something about the close, muggy atmosphere that draws up the ghosts,… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“The lamps were lit, and a good fire crackled in the great stone fireplace. There was a discreet chink of china, the… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
“You are not there, Father,” I cried. “I wake up at Gaudlin Hall, I spend most of my day there, I sleep… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
“Strange though it may seem, people rarely show such enthusiasm as when they are seeking the proof of a ghost story—the soul… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
“Mackenzie, our profession courts death, madness is always just over the next rise, the next hillock…” Sherman’s voice dropped off, “I’m out… — Jim Cherry Copy Share Image
“A shade flickered to my left, an eerie shadow balanced even more precariously on the railing than I. Her plimsolls struggled to… — Hazel Butler Copy Share Image
“It seemed for a moment as if something was there, loitering between the knurled and towering cherry trees, a flash of a… — Hazel Butler Copy Share Image
“The past had already been dealt with, to one end or another, it was certain, fixed, the horror of it was already… — Hazel Butler Copy Share Image
“Very soon you will find yourself at the end of a dirt road, only inches from a threshold . . . a… — Mark Ristau Copy Share Image
“Like the feeling of a carbonated beverage slipping down the throat, the bubbles rushing and popping as they make their descent, the… — Eda J. Vor Copy Share Image
“Parker felt, not for the first time, as though he had wandered into a ghost story.” — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“I often stood and stared into those tunnels and thought about what happened there; how I was separated from it only by… — Benjamin Brindise Copy Share Image
“the door to his room is open.his face amooth in sleep.Lips relaxed,boys lips, i remember can be so rough, so tender, so… — A.M. jenkins Copy Share Image
“His indirect way of approaching a character or an action, striving to realize it by surrounding rather than invading it, is ideally… — Herbert A. Wise Copy Share Image
“beneath the stars that drift; she sighed and said "Every tale of a love can only be a tale of ghosts that… — John Daniel Thieme Copy Share Image
“(Washington) Irving was only the first of the writers of the American ghostly tale to recognize that the supernatural, exactly because its… — Howard Kerr Copy Share Image
“Tugging her purse strap up on her arm, she headed for the door. “You have my cell number. I’ll text you. If… — Virginia Nelson Copy Share Image
“Even if I had convict ancestry, I wouldn’t be ashamed of it. As far as I’m concerned, the real criminals back in… — Cameron Trost Copy Share Image
“After breakfast the host takes the young man into a corner, and explains to him that what he saw was the ghost… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“Moreau, the guy who built the castle at the beginning of the nineteenth century, built it for his wife. But she died… — Jaime Jo Wright Copy Share Image
“He does love prophesying a misfortune, does the average British ghost. Send him out to prognosticate trouble to somebody, and he is… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“The world of shadows and superstition that was Victorian England, so well depicted in this 1871 tale, was unique. While the foundations… — Hugh Lamb Copy Share Image
“Been practicing ever since I managed to tackle you. I figured there must be something to your idea about strong feelings." "Yeah.… — Jean Marie Bauhaus Copy Share Image
