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GorGorGorillaNeck  ·  3669 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 8th Occasional Give Me A Quote From Something You've Been Reading Lately

    No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone

Shirley Jackson - The Haunting of Hill House

'Tis the season for the creepy and crawlies, the squishy and squirmies , and all things that go bump in the night.