The Last to See Me
they ventriloquized the dead man, addressing the passer-by with some clipped meditation on mortality.
Joe Moran • First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life.
been placed in hiding from the world. Carfax had visited Compton Wynyates and marvelled there at the faintly similar effect to that now before him;
Robert Aickman • Dark Entries
I swallowed. That uncanny serenity … It made the hairs on the back of my neck rise. My heart said, wrong, wrong, wrong.
Bridget Collins • The Binding: The most captivating novel of 2019
Her whole body ached. It often did after a night of keening. As soon as Nance left any corpse house, a great, pulsing headache would swell in her skull. ’Tis the borrowed grief, thought Nance. To stand in the doorway between life and death racks the body and bleeds the brain.