“You’ve seen it, haven’t you? This is a case study about the deaths of hundreds of people who died in their sleep. All of these victims reported seeing someone on top of them.”Tagged: Deaths, Sleep
“The characters felt real, the world felt like our own, and there was no safety net — you weren’t safe in the daylight, your family could turn on you, and children weren’t safe from the monster. In fact, sometimes they were its favorite food.”Tagged: Horror, Good writing, Stephen King, Books, Why things scare us
“A ghost can be a lot of things. A memory, a daydream, a secret. Grief, anger, guilt. But, in my experience, most times they're just what we want to see.”Tagged: Ghost, Memory, daydream, Grief, Guilt
“Steven Crain: Nobody's buying the novel, Shirl. Shirley Crain: You sold me the book. Now you know what I think. You publish this, you know what it costs.”Tagged: novel, book, sold, publish
“Does he talk to you about what happened that night? Because all I've got are those tabloid quotes. He refuses to tell us anything else.”Tagged: happened, Night, tabloid, Quotes, Refusal
“There's natural phenomena that we understand and there's natural phenomena that we don't. Primitive humans used to die of fright during an eclipse. They had no idea what it was. The eye of an angry god. An evil spirit. Nothing supernatural about it, though. Once we understood what it was, well, it…”Tagged: Supernatural, Ghosts, What We Don't Understand
“When you're little, you learn how to see things that aren't there. And when you grow up, you learn how to make them real.”Tagged: Growing Up, Getting Older, Dreams, Realizing Your Dreams
“Some things can't be told. You live them or you don't. But they can't be told. I'm sorry”Tagged: What Is Not Said, The Inexpressible, The Secret of Secrecy, What Cannot Be Said, Inarticulable
“All this time we tried to get into this room, now we can't get the fuck out!”Tagged: Room, Frustrated, trapped, upset