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“I noticed the dudes in the ambulance were staying put; I hoped they were calling for backup, or maybe somebody who could do an exorcism, or maybe my pal Stephen King, because if anybody on earth co...”
“Its a long story, but one youve never heard before. This story is about a place that dwells on the mountain; a place where bad things happen. And you may think you know about the bad things, you ma...”
“Underneath the Triple Tree there is a man who waits for me and should I go or should I stay my fates the same either way.”
“When I awoke I was laying on the floor in a darkened room. The rope, like the very core of myself, had turned from snow white to a hot, unfamiliar red.”
“Ive always felt a little lost in life, like I never received complete instructions on who I'm supposed to be. Everyone else around me seemed to know exactly who they were. Their lives would fly rig...”
“I believe that you believe that. But this thing, whatever it is, it's tricky. Manipulative. A liar. And it's smarter than you.""I'll try not to be offended by that.""You shouldn't be."What do you t...”
“Lydia shrugged. "At least we'll have some stories to tell after graduation.""These aren't the kind of stories I want to tell.”
“I'm an art major. You're a political science major. YOU go lay down the law.”
“We stopped looking in the shadows, when we realised that WE were the monsters that we are afraid of. I want to take these monsters, give them a voice and put them back under our beds, in our closet...”
“Mom says you have to believe in Santa if you want presents on Christmas.”
“The Skinned Men kill again.”
“Especially on rainy nights like this, they would congregate under the bridge, all the boys from nowhere, the boys who lived nowhere, who had nowhere else to go.”
“Just as there are broken people, there are broken places on this earth. Some have always been broken. All cities have such neighborhoods at their edges, and this city is all edges block after bloc...”
“They say a basis in fact underlies most legends. They say it all the time, all those Wise Elders in all those old horror films, the high priests, the scientists, the gypsy fortune tellers. On this ...”
“I think everyone should have a problem with zombies on fire.”
“Trolls have existed on this planet for as long as humans. This is what I was told and what I translated to Tub. The first mention of them in recorded history is from ninth-century Norway, when the ...”
“Horror is the awakening of repressed knowledge, something that you have known all along but kept at the periphery of awareness so that life can go on.”
“Its a terrible thing, isnt it? To be dragged under?”
“Thomas had lived in fear and terror the past few weeks, but this was almost too much. To feel safe only to have that snatched away again.”
“There's a transparent face that looks deep into my eyes, baring my soul, right before terror consumes me and the image becomes a black mass of horror.”
