Chill Quote by Anna Silver

“Blasted grave marker. There sure are a bloody lot of them. They've got some nerve burying all these dead people here.”

— Tess Oliver

“London. For some reason the word didn't seem to  have the magic, warm, sound of home that it had always had.”

— Karen Schwabach

“In London, I tended to hang with the fallen.”

— Ken Bruen

“As the invaders caught the villagers and tore into them, they made soothing, crooning noises that somehow drowned out the shrieking. They strangled the…

— Kathe Koja

“The four of them stared at me. Half an hour ago we were strangers and I was beating the crap out of them; now…

— Jonathan Maberry

“It was like the Secret Garden. Of dead people.”

— Chelsea Fine

“London seemed like a house with five thousand rooms, all different; the kick was to work out how they connected, and eventually to walk…

— Hanif Kureishi

“London is where people go in order to come back from it sadder and wiser.”

— Martin Amis

“London was a city of ghosts, some deader than others. Thorne knew that in this respect, it wasn't unlike any other major city -…

— Mark Billingham

“The oth­ers went up­stairs, a slow unwilling pro­ces­sion. If this had been an old house, with creak­ing wood, and dark shad­ows, and heav­ily pan­elled…

— Agatha Christie

“All I know about this fine, sweaty life, my own or anyone else’s, is that in a little while I’ll rise up and leave…

— Raymond Carver

“London and Westminster. Even the Cock-lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of years, after rapping out its messages, as the spirits”

— Charles Dickens