First sight Quote by Mike McCormack

“As I did so I became suddenly and agonizingly aware of the nearness of the carrion thing, whose hideous hollow breathing I half fancied…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“I could not see the unholy creature, but I could feel the bone-aching chill of its presence, and I heard the howl of its…

— Stephen R. Lawhead

“I walked up the ramp and stood in the van, trying to decide where to begin my inspection of the concealed words whose bones…

— Janet Frame

“The imprint left on her mind by the long famished body that had seemed in the darkness to consist of nothing by sharp crags…

— Margaret Atwood

“A warm flow of pain was gradually replacing the ice and wood of the anaesthetic in his thawing, still half-dead, abominably martyred mouth. After…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“I confess that the idea of taking off one's boots in a howling squall to safeguard fossils that had survived since the Precambrian had…

— Richard Fortey

“The sight of it made the earth seem unearthly. They were accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster, but there--…

— Joseph Conrad

“So it was that the Red Tower put into production its new, more terrible and perplexing, line of unique novelty items. Among the objects…

— Thomas Ligotti

“...they'd been some of the most fully live creatures I'd ever seen --- eyes gleaming with intelligence, bodies rippling with muscle, radiating with heat…

— Ransom Rigs

“But it had grown into something else, something that thrilled me even as it frightened me, made me feel that I had finally cracked…

— Jon Fasman

“The skeleton picked up the second skull, so worn as to barely be recognisable as such. The vertebrae fell and rolled like beads from…

— J.A. Clement

“I found the skeleton of a caveman a few years back. Miraculously, it had skin and hair still attached, and amazingly my archaeological discovery…

— Jarod Kintz