Haley Newlin > Recent Status Updates

Arthur finds a nursery in Eel Marsh House

Arthur thinks of running away but feels strangely drawn back to Eel Marsh House

Reminds me of Hill House, how is sort of beckons you

“…behind me, though I could not see, only sense her dark presence, hovered the woman [in black]”

Some of the details are classic tropes of the goth genre, yet so effective that I can’t help but be a little jumpy as I read

Arthur sees the woman in black more clearly than before. Her expression was one of a “desperate, yearning malevolence…she directed the purest evil and hatred and loathing with all the force that was available to her”

Arthur arrives at Eel Marsh House

Arthur was “growing impatient of the half-hints and dark mutterings made by grown men at the mention of Mrs. Drablow and her property.”

Arthur thought he escaped the fogs of London but a stranger tells him he’s mistaken

“We get bad frets…They roll up in a minute from the sea to land across the marshes…One minute it’s as clear as a June day, the next…Terrible.”

Arthur sent to acquire documents and such from a secluded home of a recently deceased woman, Mrs. Drablow

- isolated, marsh location

Arthur nearly has a panic attack on Christmas Eve when his step children and family pressure him to tell a ghost story.

He decides to tell it but not by the fire for entertainment. He’d write it all down, after the holiday

“I think it’s just easier to call someone crazy than to admit that they could be right. Easier to call someone crazy than to confront the nuance of their circumstance, to accept the callous cruelty that exists in the world we live in, the evil out there that revels in our suffering.”

“That brief public exposure of my vulnerability—of my pain, my confusion, my fear, my grief—will forever overshadow everything I do.”

Satanic Panic

Plenty of people scoffed at the idea of satanism but the doubt only made believers more sure.

“Nothing makes people more righteous than feeling they are in possession of a truth that others don’t want to hear.”

Does the demon love Clio most bc she can see it “in all hideousness, in all its glorious depravity” and she won’t turn away

“Maybe good intentions don’t actually fucking matter. Only the action. Or the perception of the action.”

Clio trying to figure out what all these revelations mean, especially about her father

“Crazy is quicksand.”

“Everyone in my life wants me to behave in a very specific way that’s beneficial to them, and as soon as I deviate from their expectations, it’s an issue. As soon as I act out of whatever role they cast me in in their lives, it’s somehow my fault.”

Clio

“It takes so much to build an image. It takes next to nothing to destroy one.”

“Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.”

According to Alex’s book, Cici (Clio) says this after exorcism, tells her mom she should have left it alone - it as in the demon?

“I didn’t fall down the stairs. I was pulled. I was being dragged out of my own house.”
- Alex writes

I can’t believe a woman showed up at the Tate’s home and claimed to be Sharon Tate. Then, after harassing them, sending them cards, calling day and night, Patti Tate confronted the woman who then claimed to be Sharon’s child, stating she survived the murder that night

“What most people fail to understand is that demons, above all, are beings of attachment. On their own, they have no power.”

“If you want to play with me, you have to play nice.”

“I don’t want to die. I just want to know how it feels to fall.”

“So this is what the paranormal does to a person. It separates your mind from your body, like a gangrenous limb.

It’s a unique suffering. One that inspires more ridicule than suffering.”

Clio understanding what her mom went through now that she’s experiencing it herself.

The demon has always been drawn to Clio

“Our demons get us all in the end.”

Father Bernard says Alexandra and her daughters are in grave danger

“In the eyes of the Catholic Church, all women are sinners.”

“Any belief I’d had in God as a child had waned over the years. If there was a God, he was at best apathetic, at worst cruel. Why would I worship such a being?”

This hits and feels so timely, too