Closets Quote by Anonymous

Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense that within…

— Guy de Maupassant

There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.

— John Barrymore Jr

The night is full of stories. They float up like miasmas, as though the dead leave their dreams in the earth where you bury…

— Tim Winton

“Dark swarmed behind her eyelids and, in jerky seconds of sleep, she dreamed the dark came into her. Dark came insidious, up her nose…

— Thomas Harris

The nights were blinding cold and casket black and the long reach of the morning had a terrible silence to it.

— Cormac McCarthy

“The idea that the spirits of those once tortured in the house might still be there was the avenue his imagination began to explore.…

— Matthew Williams

The horror genre has long been used to uncover the dark underbelly of things.

— Misha Green

There dwell the children of the dark Night, the dread gods Sleep and Death.

— Anonymous

The others followed, and found themselves in a small, stuffy basement, which would have been damp, smelly, close, and dark, were it not, in…

— Steven Brust

“It had grown cold in the night but he was numb with other weathers. An equinox in the heart, ill change, unluck. Suttree held…

— Cormac McCarthy

The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.

— Patrick Ness

“The space between the next two buildings was crowded with four torn bodies, limbs shredded from torsos, intestines strewn like party streamers. Suddenly one…

— James Rollins