Contemporary Quote by Frederick C. Beiser

Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history.

— Anonymous

I'm always interested in the spooky repurposing of everyday things.

— William Gibson

SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks.

— Ambrose Bierce

The name [Spooky] comes from well back in university I was doing a series of essays and writing about Sigmund Freud's idea of the…

— DJ Spooky

“It was an effort formulating this summary, explaining myself. I preferred the distant past, centuries that were over and done with, ghosts that posed…

— Leila Aboulela

I've always been drawn to spooky things, to the unusual, to things that are dark but in a friendly way.

— Jane Goldman

More than ever, I am convinced that history has meaning - and that its meaning is terrifying.

— Rene Girard

The past haunts the present in more ways than we think. It certainly scares the living daylights out of ME"~ Old Wrinkly

— Cressida Cowell

“We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but…

— Alan Wilson Watts

“horror stories in many ways touch us even more deeply. Because they remind us, that despite all our veneers of civilization and all our…

— Peter James

Paranormal events are just edges of the infinite we 'happen' to encounter.

— Anonymous

Words themselves are all the ghosts we need.

— Donald Harington