Even if I had convict ancestry, I wouldn’t be ashamed of it. As far as I’m concerned, the real criminals back in those days weren’t twelve-year-old boys nicking a loaf of bread or a pair of socks to ward off hunger and blisters. No, it was those who exploited them; keeping the battler in the gutter while they sat around in their manors, sipping tea and admiring portraits of their toffee-nosed great grandfathers.
Cameron TrostTags: horror short-story ghost-story outback
I am who I am and always shall be.
Laura ElizabethTags: mystery drama paranormal thriller suspence ghost-story fiction-novel murder-mystery laura-elizabeth paranormal-drama paranormal-thriller suspense-thriller
The lamps were lit, and a good fire crackled in the great stone fireplace. There was a discreet chink of china, the brightness of silver teapot and muffin cover, the comforting smell mingled of steaming hot water, toast and a little sweet tobacco.
Susan HillTags: ghost-story comfy
(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, challenged the writer to invent a commensurately sophisticated narrative technique.
Howard KerrTags: fantasy horror supernatural fantastic ghost-story ghost-stories wasington-irving
Oh," the girl said, shaking her head. "Don't be so simple. People adore monsters. They fill their songs and stories with them. They define themselves in relation to them. You know what a monster is, young shade? Power. Power and choice. Monsters make choices. Monsters shape the world. Monsters force us to become stronger, smarter, better. They sift the weak from the strong and provide a forge for the steeling of souls. Even as we curse monsters, we admire them. Seek to become them, in some ways." Her eyes became distant. "There are far, far worse things to be than a monster.
Jim ButcherTags: monsters harry-dresden ghost-story
The mad rarely know that they are mad. It's the rest of the world, I think, that seems insane to them.
Jim ButcherTags: ghost-story
the door to his room is open.his face amooth in sleep.Lips relaxed,boys lips, i remember can be so rough, so tender, so sweet.So full of lies.
A.M. JenkinsTags: ghost-story
Strange though it may seem, people rarely show such enthusiasm as when they are seeking the proof of a ghost story—the soul gathers all this sort of thing to its hungry bosom.
Halldór LaxnessTags: superstition ghost-story
What was the worst thing you've ever done?
I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me...the most dreadful thing...
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Do you like a good ghost story?”-Jonah
Dana Michelle BurnettTags: ghosts ghost spirits ghost-story
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