Dark fantasy Quote by Auden Johnson

“the stench that greeted her inside instantly took her mind from the locked door. It was an overpowering odor, like a mixture of human…

— Deanna Lynn Sletten

“She descended, not through the nearest hole as was her childhood habit, but more sedately down a marble staircase that began life in the…

— Patricia A. McKillip

“She ran into the bathroom and powdered her face and the front of her dress, drew a surrealistic version of a mouth beneath her…

— John Kennedy Toole

“The exits were entrances in disguise. -- Shannon B.”

— SMITH Magazine

“You want us to go in there---seriously?" He stared at the cave. "It smells like death. Horrible, farty death.”

— Andrea Cremer

“He must have pressed the wrong button, or several of them, for when the door fretted open he found himself deep underground, with no…

— Douglas Woolf

“There was a horrible, wrenching sound, a screech of protesting metal, and one of the screams peaked at a shivering, violent point—then dissolved into…

— Jim Butcher

“She was gone then in a flurry of bonnet ribbons and clicking slippers. I turned, paying no attention to where I went, wishing the…

— Anne Rice

“He slammed the door and ran blindly down the corridor, grabbing at handles. What exactly had he seen? They had been eating with their…

— Ramsey Campbell

“Things seem to be returning to normal, he thought, but couldn’t stop himself from laughing out loud when he realized he was crawling through…

— Nathan Wrann

“Letting go of the pipe in the laundry room, he could feel in his throat so many sentences from the night's reading of emails,…

— Andre Dubus III

“It transformed and sharpened everything she saw, smelled, felt. She could hear the ping of water moving through the pipes and smell metal in…

— Dennis Lehane