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"Her breath had the reek of rancid meat and though her lips did not move, he was certain he heard a chorus of voices whispering and laughing from the darkness at the back of her throat."

"Humans were built to look back; that’s why we have that swivel joint in our necks."

"Humanity and empathy collapsed when subjected long enough to other people's cruelty."

"It was a one-to-one replica of Keyhouse Manor from Netflix's Locke & Key"

"Pictures in a book, like they told the kid in The Shining . They couldn't hurt you. Tell that to the bloody wallpaper in the corridors of the Overlook Hotel."

"As if November wasn't a cancer metastasizing through the glands of her psyche every year, spraying uselessness like blood confetti"

"Never worry about what you say to a man. They're so conceited that they never believe you mean it if it's unflattering."

"Exsanguination never sounded so hilarious."

"What people don't know, Little One, is that the most dreadful things happen out in the open while the sun shines bright up in the sky and no one can do a thing about it."

"We can mark the place that indicates 'this is how much we can take'; we can monitor it, but that line, nevertheless, constantly moves."

"If there was one thing recent history had taught him, it was that fears came true far more often than dreams."

"People always knock on doors three times without knowing what they are awakening on the other side."

"What baffled them was the skeleton."

Fantastic first line!

"My phone informed me that it was absolutely talking to the internet, it was happy to talk to the internet, it loved talking to the internet, then as soon as I tried to check my email, it told me it had never heard of the internet and wasn't entirely sure it existed."

"If you want to truly scare someone, you need to jolt them to attention and let their twisted little imaginations do the rest. The greats understood that; Hitchcock, Lynch, Craven. People say suspense is terrifying but they're not correct. You must be given a framework and jolted to attention for the fear response to start manufacturing its own nightmares."

"A person gets stupid when they become people"

"A bit of well placed profanity never goes awry if you pick your spot with care. Stephen King novels taught me that"

"I know now what I suspected then. That a cocktail of immense fear, absolute freedom, rising uncertainty, boredom, and raging hormones turned an amusement park into a tribal battleground."

"If that house were alive it would feed on happiness and breathe out nothing but screaming and hate."

"He'd been the most powerful physical medium in the United States in 1940 - and at fifteen. Fifteen! Now at forty-five he was a god-damned, self-diluting parasite, malingering his way through the week in order to collect a hundred thousand dollars."

"The worst haunted house in the world threatened her less than being alone."

I keep getting surprised by how disturbing this book is, and how it continues to get more and more f*cked up.... Plus the fact that I still have 100 pages to go concerns me (in a good way!!)
I have found myself with a completely horrified look on my face throughout most of the book so far.
The only downfall is that my germaphobic issues are getting worse. Haha

52 pages in and this book has already far surpassed my expectations!!

"The Day women were the definition of mob mentality. And here they were on a farm with plenty of pitchforks."

"The days were a clan that mighta lived long, But Ben Day's head got screwed on wrong. That boy craved dark Satan's power, So he killed his family in one nasty hour. Little Michelle he strangled in the night, Then chopped up Debby: a bloody sight. Mother Patty he saved for last, Blew off her head with a shotgun blast. Baby Libby somehow survived, But to live through that ain't much a life."

"There was a presence in this house, something unholy; an idea that I had previously dismissed as fancy took hold of me and told me it was true. Only there was something else, something I hadn't imagined before. There were two of them."