Megan Hex

“I thought we were gonna get eaten by brain goblins or something,” said Simon. “What’re brain goblins?” “No idea. That’s just what I thought when I saw the eyes. ‘Oh, shit, it’s brain goblins.’ ”
― T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places

“This fits with the broad cultural script that insists that women are interested in stories of violence because of their own history of violation—except that the women in the survey clarified that they weren’t just talking about harm that had been done to them personally, but societal trauma, too. A lot of them mentioned 9/11. Pain doesn’t have to be personal to be a motivating force.”
― Rachel Monroe, Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession

“Over two thousand Byzantine manuscripts devoted to medical works survive in European libraries. A third of these contain works by a single author such as the second-century Galen of Pergamon; the remaining manuscripts have selections from different classical and Byzantine medical writers. In this second group of manuscripts, scattered among the selections culled from treatises by well-known physicians, are many anonymous antidotaria—lists of pharmaceutical treatments for specific diseases, some as long as eighty-five folios.”
― Timothy S. Miller, Walking Corpses: Leprosy in Byzantium and the Medieval West

“I looked for the clock over the front desk, which is made from the taxidermied body of a cuckoo and resembles a dad joke given flesh.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places