Ghost stories Quote by Herbert A. Wise

“Two ingredients most valuable in the concocting of a ghost story are the atmosphere and the nicely managed crescendo …Let us, then, be introduced…

— M. R. James

“Quite by chance, her talk of ghosts comes on the very day the book I am in the middle of reading has completely disappeared,…

— Diane Setterfield

“He collected the stories of people like himself, mostly keeping silent and listening. He slowly discovered that the stories were similar, that there was…

— Paolo Giordano

“He clung to the story as to a vow whose abandonment might bring down on his head all kinds of grief and misfortune. He…

— Anonymous

“With a perversity of judgement, which must be attributed to his not having by Nature a very strong head, the Graces, the Spirit, the…

— Jane Austen

“A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh, and motion, and a boundless variety…

— William Godwin

“There is a great deal of solemn discussion about The Novel. In fact, every novel is an answer to the ancient plea, 'Tell us…

— Pamela Brown

“The man had no portraits or photographs, but he had slowly surrounded himself with mementos of a fantastic past. Each little item, by the…

— William Ritter

“Knowing the voice of the Lord, obeying Him, and dwelling in His presence,” William recounted.”

— Rick Joyner

That is the mystery: Reading Henry James can yield prose that is contrary to James, yet inspired by him. Who can understand this?

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Unable to penetrate to the secret place of his soul where his motives lay hidden, he believed that a supernatural voice had called him…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“He led a ghostlike existence”

— George Orwell