Jonathan Dunne Horror Quotes

“That hideous face turns to us, and it is now, in the ambient light, that I begin to see the true nature of this nightmare roosting in my home.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Drive: An Old Castle Novel

“It was a symphony of fire for the ages.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Fireman

“Yes, Don had his triggers, but Tracy had the gun.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Dead Air: The Dead Series: Vol 2

“Follow me, and I shall grant you that wish. I pickle youth in a jar of formaldehyde.”
― Jonathan Dunne, The Boneyard: Short fictions of the morbid and macabre: The Boneyard Series: Vol 2

“But evil hides amongst us.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Hotel Miramar: An Old Castle Novel

“The rhythmic whooshing of the waves fizzled away, and all he could hear were the seagulls and their incessant Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha mocking laughter. Dan's feathered friends stared down at him with their condemning eyes from their clifftop reverie. Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha the gulls squawked wicked mirth at him, the hapless jester, while the seabirds screamed and pointed their wings at him from their lofty galleries.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Hotel Miramar: An Old Castle Novel

“Tentatively, Peter Armstrong levered his fingers into the groove in the section of floorboards that had been fashioned into the secret door and lifted. He shone his flashlight down into the opening to see the ghoulish girls living in the floor, staring up at him. That mental snapshot would stay with the boy indefinitely. It was the strangest of strange notions, but the girls’ malformations and deformities had turned them into twin phantoms of nightmare”
― Jonathan Dunne, Hotel Miramar: An Old Castle Novel

“Peter Armstrong would've never guessed that the most difficult thing he would ever have to do in life was to pretend his loving parents hadn’t become loving monsters.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Hotel Miramar: An Old Castle Novel

“The last thing the 14-year-old wanted to do now was stay in the room with the two people he had once trusted with his life. Now, he didn’t trust his life with them.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Hotel Miramar: An Old Castle Novel

“The boy shook violently and wailed. It was a relief and a horror to hear the child — a horror to hear his pained screams, but a relief to know he was alive enough to scream.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Hotel Miramar: An Old Castle Novel

“Equipped with this mortal knowledge, Shelly Starkweather put her immortal plan into action.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Dead Ends

“No, wait...the eyes. The eyes are dead! The windows to Brendan's soul have been boarded up.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Dead Ends

“It rises from the funeral pyre of rubble, ash, and scorched memories to stare Max in the eyeballs, stand right over him in his lonely bed and whisper a hissing, fire-branding warning in his dreams, ‘Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust…’ over and over again, so close to his face he can feel the heat emanating from the fiery lick of its tongue. Fireman is trying to tell him something he already knows, but Max doesn’t know it yet. Wake up, damn you! It’s staring you in the face…”
― Jonathan Dunne, Dead Ends

“It was a withered and crooked thing, blind as a newborn puppy.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Drive: An Old Castle Novel

“There was much to be said for lone wolves, but more went unsaid.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Fireman

“This wasn’t going how Fireman thought it was going to go…but he knew the ending, no matter how they got there.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Fireman

“Dan and Linda saw the old Max Power in the stark wide-eyed stare through the ligatures and gauze before dimming to that unblinking thing flourishing beneath the corset of bandages.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Fireman

“Nobody ever forgot Ash Man when they met him, but they forgot themselves.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Fireman

“He was my father, but never my dad, if you catch my drift.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Dead Air: The Dead Series: Vol 2

“Just because he wasn’t here didn’t mean he wasn’t here. Jake Devereaux was in the house and all Pete had to do was channel him in through the right frequency.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Dead Air: The Dead Series: Vol 2

“Fate had intervened and nobody fucks around with fate.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Dead Air: The Dead Series: Vol 2

“But the ocean of darkness was sweeping everything away, and the heavy anchor was no match for this black tide”
― Jonathan Dunne, The Boneyard: Short fictions of the morbid and macabre: The Boneyard Series: Vol 1

“By now, I can only see with the help of sunlight. Once the sun sets, I am taken down into the valley of shadows.”
― Jonathan Dunne, The Boneyard: Short fictions of the morbid and macabre: The Boneyard Series: Vol 1

“He didn’t know it yet, but Blake Pierce suffered a mental break at that very moment, when the supernatural fused with the natural.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Dead Air: The Dead Series: Vol 2

“Now all of this was coming home to roost in this damned house of confusion.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Dead Air: The Dead Series: Vol 2

“She could put up with the spectral whispering and disembodied knocking, but the second heartbeat pulsing in her chest and ears drove Widow Peters to insanity and beyond.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Dead Air: The Dead Series: Vol 2

“There was a feeling of emptiness in the wardrobe, but it wasn’t empty of feeling.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Dead Air: The Dead Series: Vol 2

“They went down the stairs together, mortal hand in immortal hand.”
― Jonathan Dunne, The Boneyard: Short fictions of the morbid and macabre: The Boneyard Series: Vol 2

“Come with me,’ he said. ‘And you’ll see for yourself. We won’t turn back the clock — but we will stop it.”
― Jonathan Dunne, The Boneyard: Short fictions of the morbid and macabre: The Boneyard Series: Vol 2

“Only death’s suture could bring final healing.”
― Jonathan Dunne, The Reek: An Old Castle Novel