“Succumbing finally, she lets out a loud shriek as her vehicle stops at a red light. Fuck. She hollers cursing the night. Cursing the shadows, cursing the unknown condemned she intends to meet this ...”

“To these children, the door William has just come through is a portal. Being shoved through it means a trip to hell where only demons come to visit and the man before them fits that description; hi...”

“A vein throbs to the left of his forehead. It pulsates, mirroring the violence in the room.”

“William sees it all happen again. The pain is not in the event. The subjection to it and his powerless state each time is where his anguish lies. He is unable to influence the situation, despite hi...”

“The dead are the past and we cannot escape the past. Without the past there will be no future.”

“and the wind gathered the leaves as a mother gathers her children and blew them irrevocably, lovingly, into the haunted wildness”

“It was a hideous ancient thing that stood on tiger feet in the middle of the floor. Like a showpiece. And he did enjoy showing it. He would bring his friends upstairs to the master bathroom so that...”

“I do not love men: I love what devours them.”

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”

“Part of his mind was screaming, but it was a distant one and easy to ignore.”