Behinds Quote by H. P. Lovecraft

“Why is it that we fear dark places? Even a place well trodden by us through time can arouse the greatest foreboding when un-illuminated.…

— Jeff Wheeler

The first thing he noticed was how quiet it was. This was nothing like the kind of quiet he heard when he woke up…

— John Boyne

The darkness grew apace; a cold wind began to blow in freshening gusts from the east, and the showering white flakes in the air…

— H. G. Wells

“How quiet it is,' Danny said, digging in his knapsack for the canteen full of water he had brought. 'You don’t realize how scary…

— Jay Williams

“Darkness surrounded me, a complete absence of light that left me shaking inside. No. It wasn’t the darkness that had me shaking. It was…

— Lisa Renee Jones

Darkness tends to embolden haters to have a voice. They will find every dark corner, every crack in a wall, or shady spot under…

— Eugene Nathaniel Butler

The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. Often he had to…

— Cormac McCarthy

“I'm afraid of the dark.' And his mother: 'Don't be silly. You know there's nothing to be afraid in the dark.' But he knew…

— Graham Greene

But since then, it seemed he had been caught up in a hurricane, whirling from one thing to another with scarcely enough time to…

— Brian Falkner

He could not feel her near him in the darkness nor hear her voice touch his ear. He waited for some minutes listening. He…

— James Joyce

“The acrid odor of overloaded circuitry permeated the air, the horrid smell witness that at least one of his senses was working as sights…

— Marcha A. Fox

“Sometimes there is a darkness you can hear, a swallowing of your senses that blots out everything going on in the world around you,…

— Ripley Patton