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Rufus Woodward

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Born

Edinburgh, The United Kingdom

Website

http://www.shorecliffhorror.com

Twitter

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Genre

Fiction, Horror, Fantasy

Influences

Robert Aickman, M.R. James, Neil Gaiman, E.F. Benson, H.P. Lovecraft, ...more

Member Since

March 2016

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Rufus Woodward lives and works in Edinburgh, Scotland.

He writes strange tales, drinks tea, and buys more books than he will ever have time enough to read.

He is most recently the author of 'The Ghost in the Hill', as well as three other collections of short stories.

No matter how hard he tries, he does not seem to be able to stop writing ghost stories.
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‘The Ghost in the Hill’ is here

Happy to announce that our new book ‘The Ghost in the Hill’ is now available to download from the kindle store. Take a look here. I hope you enjoy it.

There are haunted places. There are haunted books. There are haunted people. There are haunted friendships. Dark, uncanny, and fantastical, The Ghost in the Hill is a book of strange tales to keep you company through a long winter’s night.

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Rufus Woodward’s books

Average rating: 4.13 · 23 ratings · 13 reviews · 5 distinct works

	The Ghost in the Hill 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Old Maid and Other Stories 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shorecliff Horror and Other Stories 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Report on a Haunting and Other Stories 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sir Dominick's Bargain 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Rufus’s Quotes

“Even the most impassioned devotee of the ghost story would admit that the taste for it is slightly abnormal, a survival, perhaps, from adolescence, a disease of deficiency suffered by those whose lives and imaginations do not react satisfactorily to normal experience and require an extra thrill”
― L.P. Hartley

tags: horror, supernatural

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“All things pass. None of us can manage to hold on to anything. In that way, we live our lives.”
― Haruki Murakami, Wind/Pinball: Two Novels

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“Ascribing meaning to life is a piece of cake compared to actually living it."

-from "Hear the Wind Sing”
― Haruki Murakami, Wind/Pinball: Two Novels

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“Answers are almost always insufficient. They are almost always misleading.”
― Robert Aickman

tags: ghost-stories, horror, strange-stories

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“I have always been interested in witchcraft and superstition, but have never had much traffic with ghosts, so I began asking people everywhere what they thought about such things, and I began to find out that there was one common factor - most people have never seen a ghost, and never want or expect to, but almost everyone will admit that sometimes they have a sneaking feeling that they just possibly could meet a ghost if they weren't careful - if they were to turn a corner too suddenly, perhaps, or open their eyes too soon when they wake up at night, or go into a dark room without hesitating first.”
― Shirley Jackson, Come Along With Me