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“I want to know what haunts me. The ghosts that obscure my face in the mirror, that speak in my head when I’m trying to think, that pull my hands back when I try to reach out. I know there’s something; I just don’t know what it is yet.”

Book:Things We Say in the Dark

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“It might have been midnight, or perhaps earlier, or later, for I had taken no note of time, when a sob, low, gentle, but very distinct, startled me from my revery. - I felt that it came from the bed of ebony - the bed of death. I listened in an agony of superstitious terror - but there was no repetition of the sound. I strained my vision to detect any motion in the corpse - but there was not the slightest perceptible.”

Haunting Ligeia

Book:The Complete Stories and Poems

Source: The Complete Stories and Poems

“Perhaps all of this is done in the hopes that we won’t notice just how quickly everything is changing”

Haunting Introspective Reflective Sobering

Book:The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

Source: The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“The moon's soft glow was such a beautiful gift to the night that Pinchy felt compelled to honor it. Though none of his species have ever sung, he raised his small mouth to the sky and summoned a rasping warble. It wasn't lovely or on key, but he knew in his heart that the moon had heard and accepted his song. - From "Extremities" in Bedtime Stories for Monsters”

Haunting

Book:Malice House

Source: Malice House

“Revenge has always been easy to understand, but hunger implies that something can be filled. What is a ghost's limit when they have no real body?”

Horror Hunger Revenge Ghost Haunting

Book:She Is a Haunting

Source: She Is a Haunting

“Will having a newborn distract from the time we have together?" she asked. "Don't you think saying goodbye to your child will make your death more painful?" "Wouldn't it be great if it did?" I said. Lucy and I both felt that life wasn't about avoiding suffering.”

Death Family Life Philosophy Mortality

Book:When Breath Becomes Air

Source: When Breath Becomes Air

“Suspicion, like superstition, is something fear-fueled - for the former is a sort of death, firing at the natural, while the latter is a life frozen by the supernatural.”

Fear Natural Uncertainty Suspicion Supernatural Haunting Suspicious Superstition Superstitious Fearfulness

Author:Criss Jami

“The road into Pines was empty, and Ethan walked down the middle of the double yellow.”

Poetic Haunting Foreboding Atmospheric

Author:Black Crouch

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