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"Comedians and actors, when they're feeling beneficent, are wont to publicly thank everyone from the boom operator to the wardrobe mistress for making the show possible, usually neglecting to mention that if the writers hadn't provided inspired imagination, with sure stagecraft and a credible plot, the audience would have been treated to an evening of organ music."

Audrey knew what was up. 🖤

I'm sad this tale is so short because I am LOVING it! It has been snowing all afternoon and I can't think of a more perfect story to help set what I like to refer to as the cozy Christmas horror vibe.

"The rich could afford eccentricities the rest of us saved for dreams and nightmares."

"Was there enough disinfectant in the world to cleanse the house of Usher?"

"Nothing too nasty could happen in such a nice little town. Not there."

“That is a pointless spiral of fear and ignorance, and I refuse to let it claim me. Try harder.”

"To be a child is to be a visitor from another world muddling your way through the strange rules of this one, where up is always up, even when it would make more sense for it to be down, or backward, or sideways."

"Hell, it seemed, was behind them."

Since I still have half a book left (and know about the Donner party), I'm guessing it's not.