Chamber Quote by James M. Barrie

Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.

— James M. Barrie

Houses are not haunted. We are haunted, and regardless of the architecture with which we surround ourselves, our ghosts stay with us until we…

— Dean Koontz

“Look back, hold a torch to light the recesses of the dark. Listen to the footsteps that echo behind, when you walk alone. All…

— Diana Gabaldon

All houses are haunted. All persons are haunted. Throngs of spirits follow us everywhere. We are never alone.

— Barney Sarecky

“If this had been an old house, with creaking wood, and dark shadows, and heavily panelled walls, there might have been an eerie feeling.…

— Agatha Christie

“The darkness is not so empty as you imagine. Think of attending a party at night, in a house brightly lit with candles. If…

— Galen Beckett

“There is the darkness of a moonless night out of doors, and there is the darkness of a house with its shutters closed and…

— Juliet Marillier

“Here, in this house the ghosts of our past are real”

— Ruth Ware

Before we understood that houses shift just over time because the ground is moving, the creaks in a house were assumed to be apparitions,…

— Dan Trachtenberg

Has the dark shadow really disappeared? Or is it inside me, concealed, waiting for its chance to reappear? Like a clever thief hidden inside…

— Haruki Murakami

It was always late at night, when everything and everyone else was quiet, that those voices would rise like ghosts, soft and haunting, filling…

— Sarah Dessen

How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of night! And yet the stillness seems almost audible! From all the measureless depths of air around…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow