"'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, a creature was stirring."
“There is a beast in man that must be exercised, not exorcised.”-The Satanic Bible***It was Christmas Eve, and Jolly Old Saint Nicholas had one last job to do. A job he dreaded.He stood at an iron door in the side...
"Growing up isn't easy."
“I am innocent to a witch. I know not what a witch is.”“How do you know, then, that you are not one?”-Examination of Bridget Bishop, Salem Village, April 19, 1692***“Abbie Hobbs is a witch,” Ruth said.Phoebe was standing with her...
"I put a spell on you, because you're mine..."
“Horror stories show that the control we believe we have is merely an illusion.”-Clive Barker***Herb looked at the house and whistled as he got out of the car. “Are you sure this woman’s not a real witch?” he said. “Who...
"Must be the season of the witch."
“True love is like a ghost: Everyone talks of it, but few have met it face to face.”-Francois de La Rochefoucauld***"I should warn you about my family. You may be in for a bit of a shock."They were driving with...
"Every god has his day."
“Gods should be exempt from human passions.”-Euripides, “The Bacchae”***Eros arrived. He could already tell he had quite a mess on his hands. There were two of them, a man and a woman, both in love with the other, though neither...
"Find out what ghosts are afraid of."
“A surfeiting of terror soon makes terror a cliché.”-Richard Matheson, “I Am Legend”***Dora’s ghost and Jill’s ghost left the basement at midnight, dragging chains all the way up the apartment building’s thirteen floors. The chains were Dora’s idea. “If we’re...
"A reluctant werewolf's last night to howl."
“I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, but there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids”-Robert Brault***Somewhere in one of the darker corners of the world, a witch and a ghoul stood at the entrance of a...
"The devil made you do it?"
"And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it."-Job, 1:7***It happened because of the heat.Five-hundred thousand people...
"What price to keep magic in the world?"
"Come away, O human child!To the waters and the wildWith a faery, hand in hand,For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."-WB Yeats, "The Stolen Child"***William didn't tell anyone that the baby spoke to him. Who would...