"It was true. She was his soul’s star. His heart ignited every time she came into the room, flared with every just-so gesture. Anything she touched became instantly talismanic."
- Mark Kirkbride
"People in this world, on this planet, all of these people are lonely. To varying degrees, human beings are lonely. Many are not; but too many are. And they are too frequently lonely, too. They fill th..."
- C. JoyBell C.
"I turned to him and he reached for my hand. It would have been easier to walk away. But the wind still blew around us and the house still stood."
- Kate Chisman
"Writing is a lonely act. When two writers come together to write a horror story it can be crazy. You can't step on a mine and hope it doesn't explode."
- Ben Oliveira
"No one will ever write a horror novel as scary as reading about my symptoms on WebMD."
- John Raptor
"The scratching came from the attic. At night, when Rory turned out the light I would lie awake and wait for it to skit, skit, skit lightly across the floorboards above our heads and down behind the wa..."
"Henry,' at last said one, again dipping the spoon into the flaming spirit, 'hast thou read Hoffman?''I should think so,' said Henry.'What think you of him?''Why, that he writes admirably; and, moreove..."
- James Hain Friswell
"No wonder that the ghost and goblin stories had a new zest. No wonder that the blood of the more timid grew chill and curdled, that their flesh crept, and their hearts beat irregularly, and the girls ..."
- John Berwick Harwood
"I reinvented myself. I acquired a taste for evil. I found I have a talent for it. And I murdered the old me."
"When I got home, I seemed in a dream. My windows looked upon hers; I remained all the day looking at them, and all the day they were closed and dark. I forgot everything for this woman; I slept not, I..."