Books Quote by Robert Aickman

“I believe ghost story writing is a dying art.”

— H.R. Wakefield

“Poetry survives because it haunts and it haunts because it is simultaneously utterly clear and deeply mysterious; because it cannot be entirely accounted for,…

— Louise Glück

“I tell you, my idea of a ghost is something quite different. Dead men rise up never – read even your poets. Ghosts breed…

— Leland Hall

The reality of a poem is a very ghostly one. It suggests, it suggests, it suggests again.

— Mark Strand

“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

“How do you feel when you read stuff written by dead authors? A visit by a ghost?”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“Skepticism is key to a good ghost story”

— Jeff Provine

“Even the most impassioned devotee of the ghost story would admit that the taste for it is slightly abnormal, a survival, perhaps, from adolescence,…

— L.P. Hartley

“So the ghostly figure which has haunted these pages, as it haunted my life, goes down into the impenetrable gloom. Like a shadow she…

— Wilkie Collins

“The gardener who grew ghosts learned that grief is not a problem to solve. It is soil to tend.”

— Zain Omarjee

“He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that…

— F Scott Fitzgerald

“I never was much for ghost stories. Never have been too easily spooked. I believed that a body that abides in the Spirit didn't…

— Allie Ray