Book-quote Quote by Elizabeth Peters

“The house felt haunted, like only I understood the way all of our shadows, the ones we’d left, had seeped into the wood and…

— Ava Dellaira

“The room seemed to have grown darker, as if all the sad light of the cloudy evening had taken refuge on her forehead.”

— Joseph Conrad

“The night was silent and full of ghostly beauty, so strange since it was as bright as day.”

— J.L. Marrain

“Or maybe a ghost was only a thing that endures, like the furnishings of this room, like the chairs or table; a little worse…

— Ari Berk

“I passed to my room and went to be, and, strange to say, slept without dreaming. despair has it's own calms.”

— Bram Stoker

“Somehow this wasn't the same as melancholy. It was something else, about how melancholy and nostalgia weren't relevant in the slightest. Things just happened.…

— Ali Smith

“...her melancholy mood had followed her home. It clung to her like perfume, filling the rooms she visited with the scent of loss. Surely…

— Elise K. Ackers

“It seemed to her that she had never known what the night was like before. Up till now it had been dark, silent, beautiful…

— Katherine Mansfield

“Ghosts are waiting in the shadows of the room, patient dull shimmers. The others can see them, too, I know it. We’re all afraid…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“Everything was quiet now. It was even too freaky quiet. The house seemed big without anyone else inside. It felt lonely; like a ghost…

— Erica Sehyun Song

“There was a silence. The evening darkened in the room. Noiselessly and with silver feet the shadows crept in from the garden. The colours…

— Oscar Wilde

“The place was also slightly haunted,”

— Thomas Ligotti