Spooky Quotes

The sound traveled pleasantly over the water, but the forest at their backs seemed to swallow it down with a single gulp that permitted neither echo nor resonance. ~ The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood Yet, ever at the back of his thoughts, lay that other aspect of the wilderness: the indifference to human life, the merciless spirit of desolation which took no note of man. ~ The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood Fingers of snow brushed the surface of his heart. The power and quiet majesty of the winter's night appalled him. ~ The Glamour of the Snow by Algernon Blackwood And something born of the snowy desolation, born of the midnight and the silent grandeur, born of the great listening hollows of the night, something that lay 'twixt terror and wonder, dropped from the vast wintry spaces down into his heart—and called him. ~ The Glamour of the Snow by Algernon Blackwood "We are standing now on one of the most haunted—and most terribly haunted—spots of the whole world." ~ Secret Worship by Algernon Blackwood The winds were about and walking. ~ The Willows by Algernon Blackwood Something plucked at my heart and made me feel afraid. ~ The Willows by Algernon Blackwood Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out. The element of water moistens the earth, But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens. ~ The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster The place became full of a watchful intentness now; for when other things sank brooding to sleep the heath appeared slowly to awake and listen. Every night its Titanic form seemed to await something; but it had waited thus, unmoved, during so many centuries, through the crises of so many things, that it could only be imagined to await one last crisis—the final overthrow. ~ Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy There must be something ghostly in the air of Christmas--something about the close, muggy atmosphere that draws up the ghosts, like the dampness of the summer rains brings out the frogs and snails. ~ Told After Supper by Jerome K. Jerome