Devlin Tay

“You cannot truly believe that people can talk to the dead?” I challenged him. “Why not?” my companion replied. “People do it all the time. The question that intrigues us is: can the dead talk back?”
― Derrick Belanger, Sherlock Holmes: Adventures in the Realms of H.P. Lovecraft: Volume Two

“There was nothing to be gathered from her letter, more than that he was low and nervous. In those words, of which healthy people think so lightly, what a world of suffering is sometimes hidden!”
― Mike Ashley, Fighters of Fear: Occult Detective Stories

“In effect, Japanese horror is less about a character reaching a certain goal and growing as a person and more about a regular person reacting to what happens around them. Scary things happen, they react, more scary things happen, usually there’s a twist to make things even scarier and then everyone dies.”
― Tara A. Devlin, Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet: Volume Three

“Think of it. Mankind has domesticated plants for ten thousand years, changing them to suit his desires. But plants emerged on land millions of years before the first walking fish, and they have had two hundred million years to learn to make animals serve them. “All of humankind is enslaved by grains, fruit and livestock. All these species drove men to reshape the world to spread their genes. At the behest of corn and bananas and coffee and cocaine, man has cut down nearly all of the forests. They have cut out their lungs to fill their bellies.”
― Ross E. Lockhart, Cthulhu Fhtagn!