Darkness within Quote by Shirley Jackson

“Hill House, not sane, stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were…

— Shirley Jackson

“Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for…

— Shirley Jackson

Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of…

— Shirley Jackson

“Perhaps someone had once hoped to lighten the air of the blue room in Hill House with a dainty wallpaper, not seeing how such…

— Shirley Jackson

“No Human eye can isolate the unhappy coincidence of line and place which suggests evil in the face of a house, and yet somehow…

— Shirley Jackson

“Cavernous windows opened in a silent scream on the face of the Gothic house that tilted on the crest of Foster Hill. Its gables…

— Jaime Jo Wright

“Every small town has at least one house the children whisper about; the type of house that has always been abandoned; where the once…

— The Blood Brothers

“Half an hour later, as I was deeply immersed in the story of The Man of the Hill, that curious, lengthy digression which seems…

— Jonathan Coe

“Certain empty houses that seemed to stare like the faces of people suffering from terrible mental illness. An empty barn on the outskirts of…

— Stephen King

“A silent house felt deeply unnatural, like a silent heart.”

— Amy Cross

The Revolutionary Hill Estates had not been designed to accommodate a tragedy. Even at night, as if on purpose, the development held no looming…

— Richard Yates

“If you ask me, houses shouldn't have been built down here. These little block-long streets cease abruptly at the open space that remains on…

— Michelle Tea