db02ace
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Certainly, the terror of a deserted house swells in geometrical rather than arithmetical progression as houses multiply to form a city of stark desolation. The sight of such endless avenues of fishy-eyed vacancy and death, and the thought of such linked infinities of black, brooding compartments given over to cob-webs and memories and the conqueror worm, start up vestigial fears and aversions that not even the stoutest philosophy can disperse.
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spooky
terror
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H.P. Lovecraft |
8af855c
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At least I rescued your poor hot dog.
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coming-of-age
disturbing
fire
frightening
funny
ghost
ghoul
gives-me-the-willies
goosebumps
grief
hot-dog
humor
laugh
lonely
lord
madness
nostalgia
pyrokinesis
rescue
savior
scary
sleepaway-camp
spooky
summer-camp
teen
teenage
wiener
wiener-roast
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R.L. Stine |
96fd4c2
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Just because something isn't good doesn't mean it's bad.
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book
characters
crime
depth
ethics
evil
good
life
literary
lonely
misunderstood
novel
sad
spooky
truth
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Rebecca McNutt |
49bef17
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"...Do you think there's somewhere else, some other place to go after this one?" Mandy blurted out. "You mean when you die, where will you end up?" Alecto asked her. "...I wouldn't know... back to whatever void there is, I suppose." "I've thought about it... every living thing dies alone, it'll be lonely after death," Mandy sighed sadly. "That freaks me out, does it scare you?" "I don't want to be alone," Alecto replied wearily. "We won't be, though. We'll be dead, so we'll just be darkness, not much else, just memories, nostalgia and darkness." "I don't want to be any of that either though," Mandy exclaimed, bursting into tears and crying, keeping her eyes to the floor, her voice shaky as she spoke to him. "When we die, we'll still be nothing, the world will still be nothing, everything'll just be nothing!" "You're real though, at least that's something," Alecto pointed out, holding his hand out in front of her. Smiling miserably, Mandy took his hand in her own and sat there beside him quietly."
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dead
death
depression
disturbing
dying
frightened
funeral
grief
grim
heaven
imagination
kill
lost
misery
nirvana
nostalgia
purgatory
sadness
scary
spooky
time
truth
void
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Rebecca McNutt |
44432eb
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Like a forest rose the huge peaks above the slumbering village, measuring the night and heavens. They beckoned him. And something born of the snowy desolation, born of the midnight and silent grandeur, born of the great listening hollows of the night, something that lay 'twixt terror and wonder, dropped from the vast wintry spaces down into his heart-- and called him. Very softly, unrecorded in any word or thought his brain could compass, it laid its spell upon him. Fingers of snow brushed the surface of his heart. The power and quiet majesty of the winter's night appalled him.... -The Glamour of the Snow
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night
snow
spooky
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Algernon Blackwood |
99c5c19
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"I've seen how cigarettes went from being advertised in every type of media to being something found to be deadly... they can't kill me no matter how many of them I smoke but I've seen humans die from smoking them... if I were you I would stop smoking them." "Why should I? You smoke 'em all the time, you chain-smoke cigarettes," Mandy pointed out. "Yeah, I started doing that back in the Sixties... for reasons you likely saw on those VHS tapes... but I'm not a person, I'm Pollution, things like that aren't dangerous to me but they are to you," Alecto told her. "It's not a good idea."
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attack
blast-from-the-past
cancer
chain-smoke
cigar
cigarette
creepy
deadly
depress
depression
disturbing
education
eerie
gray
grief
haunting
health
horror
knowledge
loss
no-smoking
past
pollution
retro
scary
self-help
sick
smog
smoke
spooky
times
tobacco
trapped
vhs-tape
video
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Rebecca McNutt |
1c9d77f
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"Why'd you want to kill yourself? Didn't you feel anything, or didn't it hurt you?" Mandy questioned, looking puzzled. "Yes, I suppose it did, ... it was strange, it was sharp, that's all I can think of to describe it... and cold, but not cold like ice, more like... I don't know, like something much worse, something horrible... and it seemed like the ground was falling upwards, becoming the sky... for a moment it made me consider that it was just a dream, that I was on some sort of drug, and then I remember being overjoyed to see the sky was still above me, then just really sad, really tired... and then I don't remember much else about it," Alecto told her, glaring straight ahead at the sky with narrowed eyes. "I don't mind, I'm not supposed to mind, anyway. Mearth already told me that eventually I would want to be dead, that it was inevitable... still, I sometimes wish that I could have done something good for other people in my life, it might have made up for all the bad stuff I've done."
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canada
confusion
creepy
dark
death
drugs
dying
dysfunctional
friend
friends
friendship
grief
halloween
help
loss
morbid
nostalgia
sadness
self-harm
self-mutilation
spooky
suicide
swing-set
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Rebecca McNutt |