"St. Augustine is not only the oldest continuously-occupied European settlement on the American continent, it is also perhaps the most haunted city in the United States. Seemingly every spot in this ci..."
- James Caskey
"To tell a ghost story means being willing to be haunted."
- Judith "Jack" Halberstam
"(Washington) Irving was only the first of the writers of the American ghostly tale to recognize that the supernatural, exactly because its epistemological status is so difficult to determine, challeng..."
- Howard Kerr
"Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one another: things that couldn't possibly happen."
- Lois Lowry
"He had built his own future brick by brick around himself but there were no doors or windows, at least that was the way it seemed at the time he had thought to himself, I am locked in, it was like one..."
- Dan Chaon
"beneath the stars that drift; she sighed and said "Every tale of a love can only be a tale of ghosts that linger in these spaces wecan never hold,"—as the wind gave echo"
- John Daniel Thieme
"If he looks at me like that again Dottie will need a bucket and mop to get me back to my room."
- Gwenn Wright
"Seth: "I write of love in my novels, write of it well, if my critics and fans are to be believed, but in all of my years at that typewriter, I never found the combination of words that would convey ho..."
- Lissa Bryan
"If you do not want to be forgotten as soon as you are dead...be read, or try coming back and pull the feet of those who are still alive instead!"
- Ana Claudia Antunes
"He let go of the rope one hand at a time and latched onto Lisa’s hands. Her fingernails dug into his wrists, but her grip was strong after a summer of lifting girls into the air. It was a tug of war b..."
- Laura Smith