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“These things are not real. They are phantasmagoria. They were made by dreams, and now that no one is dreaming them any longer they…

— Margaret Atwood

“I hurried away to the white hall of Phantasy heedless of the innumerable forms of beauty that crowded my way: these might cross my…

— George MacDonald

“Like the children in fairy stories who have seen their parents make pacts with terrifying strangers, who have discovered that our fears are based…

— Alice Munro

“They seemed to be locked behind built-in notions and no-nos, unaware of the mystery living through them or of the dance of illusion surrounding…

— James Broughton

“There was a new simplicity to what I did, a door that had opened before me to worlds I had not imagined. From where…

— Michael Johnston

“All their doors remained simple doors, on/off switches in the flow between two adjacent places, binarily either open or closed, but each of their…

— Mohsin Hamid

“Becoming acquainted and swallowing fears and settling down to life in the little cabin with its warm glow of woodstove and kerosene lamp and…

— Jack Kerouac

“Then I suddenly had the most tremendous feeling of the pitifulness of human beings, whatever they were, their faces, pained mouths, personalities, attempts to…

— Jack Kerouac

“It was completely unshocking that there were monsters in the world, secret rituals and underground burrows filled with the dead, when in my own…

— Brenna Yovanoff

“While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, And starlight wood, with fearful steps…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Once upon a time, a girl went to see a monster menagerie where all the exhibits were dead.”

— Laini Taylor

“The room was a world, a pocket of the past where extinct animals could walk.”

— George Orwell