Horror Quote by Shirley Jackson

“There is a silence in empty houses that is unique... People have left and taken all the noise with them.”

— Henning Mankell

“Everything was quiet now. It was even too freaky quiet. The house seemed big without anyone else inside. It felt lonely; like a ghost…

— Erica Sehyun Song

“The house is eerily quiet. All this time I thought silence would be a welcome reprieve, but it's less comforting than I imagined. The…

— Hannah Harrington

“How wrong they were. I wasn’t a poor little thing at all. Even as early as this, such is the relief when pressure is…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“Silence had weight. And in that moment, it was heavier than both of them could carry.”

— Janus Lucky

“Why was it that silence sometimes felt like a physical thing with a weight of its own?”

— Mary Balogh

“Then it was silent. Heavy now, not the sleepy silence of before. The kind of silence that meant horrifying things.”

— Natalie J. Damschroder

“I could hear the human noise as were standing still in between the spaces of silence.”

— Truth Devour

“The silence in the house was painful, but I had begun to realize that half of it belonged to me.”

— Ruth Emmie Lang

“An empty house has its own special silence. It is like a great held breath.”

— Anne Rivers Siddons

“There's a kind of quiet angry that can lie down over a house. Maybe there are some houses, like the Daughertys', that have never…

— Gary D. Schmidt

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

— Amy Cross