Sign in with Facebook
“It was a house without kindness, never meant to be lived in, not a fit place for people or for love or for hope. Exorcism cannot alter the countenance of a house ; Hill House would stay as it was until it was destroyed.”
― The Haunting of Hill House
― The Haunting of Hill House
“Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?”
― The Haunting of Hill House
― The Haunting of Hill House
“Miraculously, smoke curled out of his own mouth, his nose, his ears, his eyes, as if his soul had been extinguished within his lungs at the very moment the sweet pumpkin gave up its incensed ghost.”
― The Halloween Tree
― The Halloween Tree
“I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.”
― The Haunting of Hill House
― The Haunting of Hill House
“...Until they stood at last by a crumbling wall, looking up and up and still farther up at the great tombyard top of the old house. For that's what it seemed. The high mountain peak of the mansion was littered with what looked like black bones or iron rods, and enough chimneys to choke out smoke signals from three dozen fires on sooty hearths hidden far below in dim bowels of this monster place. With so many chimneys, the roof seemed a vast cemetery, each chimney signifying the burial place of some old god of fire or enchantress of steam, smoke, and firefly spark. even as they watched, a kind of bleak exhalation of soot breathed up out of some four dozen flues, darkening the sky still more, and putting out some few stars.”
― The Halloween Tree
― The Halloween Tree
Spooky Aurelien’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Spooky Aurelien’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Spooky Aurelien
Lists liked by Spooky Aurelien
