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“She wasn’t all that into guys anyhow, she kept telling herself. It’s just there were so goddamn many of them.”

Book:Martyrs and Monsters

Source: Martyrs and Monsters

“What’s the one thing so terrible that you’ve never told anyone? The one thing no one could ever forgive?” She stares hard into him. “The one thing no one could possibly know about and still love you?”

Book:Martyrs and Monsters

Source: Martyrs and Monsters

“In occult terms, a man’s path was viewed as a spiritual road, leading ever upward. Manifest destiny of the rational soul: he ascended. But woman? A lesser species, primitive and bound to the savage earth by umbilical cycles, her road spiraled downward, and any man who strayed onto her path might become lost. It was her function after all – the function of her debased and debasing nature – to tempt him away from salvation. The girl can’t help it. Here, have an apple.”

Book:Vortex

Source: Vortex

“After all, the male ego was a horrible thing.”

Book:Martyrs and Monsters

Source: Martyrs and Monsters

“Even in the wood, there was a right road and a wrong one. All the most terrifying fairy tales inevitably began with some foolish innocent (or two) straying from the path. Then anything might happen.”

Fairy Tales Myths Haunted Places

Book:Dark Forest

Source: Dark Forest

“The original Gothic horror tales focused on personalities deformed through loneliness. Ghouls, vampires, werewolves: all made, not born. But the isolation? Are even such as these ever truly alone? Perhaps the psyche has always been more complex than that, desire eternally more potent than terror. Surely, none prowl entirely in solitude.”

Vampires Werewolves Ghouls Gothic Horror

Book:Martyrs and Monsters

Source: Martyrs and Monsters

“Cinema – all art really – has great power. Power to illuminate. Power to transform. For those of us who experience film as literature, classic movies comprised an introductory education in the genre. As kids, many of us went searching through library shelves for obscure source novels after seeing some old movie or other. It was the start of many an adventure.”

Horror Cinema Classic Films

Book:Vortex

Source: Vortex