Occult Fiction Quotes

“Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil. Because I have my shotgun and bullets blessed by God to comfort me.”
― John Pease, Ezekiel's Eyes

“…and just for a second, she could have sworn she saw a shadow or something standing next to him, watching her as well.”
― John Pease, Ezekiel's Eyes

“He is old and powerful, and he can’t know of you yet, because he will know what you are, and what you can do, but more importantly, how to use you.”
― John Pease, Ezekiel's Eyes

“He senses something wrong. He sees nothing, hears nothing, yet feels surrounded, then enveloped, by a presence of undiluted evil. He is immobilized.

Then a savage merging of oblivion and agony, as if buried alive in a living expanse of living, malignant soil invading the self, violating him, becoming him. Every fiber, every atom, strains with the effort to expel it, to escape.”
― Arthur Shattuck O'Keefe, The Spirit Phone

“I am not a stage magician who does sleight of hand. I am a practitioner of - allow me to spell it - m-a-g-i-c-k. Magick. Occult knowledge and powers. Gained by way of tapping into the very wellspring of the universe.”
― Arthur Shattuck O'Keefe, The Spirit Phone

“The policeman driving the Black Maria brought the horses to a halt near another police wagon just short of the pier. Stern and Donnelly stepped onto the street, its stone paving still wet from a recent rain. The lingering smell of ozone hung in the air. The thunder had been shattering, and Stern was glad they hadn’t had to come out in the storm. He would in theory have preferred a motorized truck, but they were notoriously delicate things, prone to breakdown. At least the models publicly available.”
― Arthur Shattuck O'Kee

“The policeman driving the Black Maria brought the horses to a halt near another police wagon just short of the pier. Stern and Donnelly stepped onto the street, its stone paving still wet from a recent rain. The lingering smell of ozone hung in the air. The thunder had been shattering, and Stern was glad they hadn’t had to come out in the storm. He would in theory have preferred a motorized truck, but they were notoriously delicate things, prone to breakdown. At least the models publicly available.”
― Arthur Shattuck O'Keefe, The Spirit Phone

“The dawn of a new era for mankind has arrived. It is now possible to communicate directly with the spirits of those departed from this world, and perhaps even entities of other natures as well. Not by means of the mysticism of seances or Ouija boards or crystal balls, but by technology. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you…the spirit phone!”
― Arthur Shattuck O'Keefe, The Spirit Phone

“It was the hand of emperors and assassins. Languid yet lethal.”
― William Hjortsberg, Falling Angel