Woolrich had a genius for creating types of story perfectly consonant with his world: the noir cop story, the clock race story, the waking nightmare, the oscillation thriller, the headlong through the night story, the annihilation story, the last hours story. These situations, and variations on them, and others like them, are paradigms of our position in the world as Woolrich sees it. His mastery of suspense, his genius (like that of his spiritual brother Alfred Hitchcock) for keeping us on the edge of our seats and gasping with fright, stems not only from the nightmarish situations he conjured up but from his prose, which is compulsively readable, cinematically vivid, high-strung almost to the point of hysteria, forcing us into the skins of the hunted and doomed where we live their agonies and die with them a thousand small deaths.
Francis M. Nevins Jr.Tags: writing writers stories story storytelling suspense hysteria hunted alfred-hitchcock doomed cornell-woolrich nightmarish
I can be anything – and nothing, and everything at the same time. It all depends on the role I am in.
Simona PanovaTags: everything sacrifice nothing pretend nightmare anything pretending role nightmarish cardew
I lie more convincingly than I tell the truth.
Simona PanovaTags: truth romance lie lying sacrifice gothic young-adult pretend nightmare convincing pretending tell nightmarish
My ghost is the only soul who ever comes to cry on my grave... Only the skies cried sincerely on my funeral.
Simona PanovaTags: romance soul melancholy sadness death dead crying mystery sacrifice grave gothic young-adult dying graveyard funeral cry nightmare ghost cemetery sincere skies nightmarish odda
Paranoia. The more you think of an imaginary problem, the more you feel as though it’s real –
Simona PanovaTags: fear imagination truth reality lies romance fantasy lie horror dread mystery paranoia true sacrifice suspense false gothic young-adult problem pretend afraid real nightmare imagine paranoid fake scared fantastic imaginary love-story gothic-romance freya horrified imagined nightmarish cardew nightmarish-sacrifice
You can speak to me like you haven’t spoken even to yourself.
Simona PanovaTags: truth love romance relationships trust yourself sacrifice suspense gothic honest betrayal young-adult comfort talk loyalty relationship you me better truthful speak like confessor loyal gothic-romance freya trusting betray trustworthy nightmarish confess cardew nightmarish-sacrifice soothe what-to-say
The unknown grayish mystifying forest was benumbed into frost-covered cold, and the tremendous pines towering above the dark marshy soil resembled a gathering of severe mute brothers from a forbidden ancient order worshiping forgotten gods no one had ever heard of outside of the world of secret occult visions.
Simona PanovaTags: love romantic frost vision world god romance silence sinister dark darkness dream secret myth secrets trees mystery worship brothers gods sacrifice haunted ritual visions ancient tree gothic tower forest unknown young-adult mythology atmospheric deity land mysterious brotherhood atmosphere nightmare coldness brother cold numb heard forbidden occult order ghost silent rite pine occultism secretive ominous realm gothic-romance mute grey goth gray deities haunt severe nightmarish resemble noiseless benumbed forbid mystify mystifying tremendous
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