{"quotes":[{"text":"And as he leaned in to kiss me, my eye saw his open mouth grow larger and larger until it seemed it could swallow me whole.","author":"Alexandra Kleeman","tags":["alexandra-kleeman","creepy","intimations","kiss","metaphor","relationships"],"id":10087,"author_id":"Alexandra+Kleeman"},{"text":"It waited for her. Standing resolute in the moonlight, it had stood for a hundred years. Yet it waited just for her. Shadows passed across the moon, a cool breeze ruffled the leaves around it. Yet still it waited for her. Ancient tombs glowed in shimmery moonlight, row upon row of cold silent witnesses.","author":"Grace Willows","tags":["adventure","advice","cemetery","creepy","danger","ghosts","haunted","love","midnight","mystery","paranormal","passion","romance","scary"],"id":11233,"author_id":"Grace+Willows"},{"text":"...In the middle of the field, Harry suddenly stopped and looked back. Mr. Chad was all alone in the creepy woods. He could take care of himself...Couldn't he? Of course he could, he was a teacher.","author":"Connie Kingrey Anderson","tags":["children-s","connie-kingrey-anderson","creepy","halloween","mystery","reluctant-readers","spooky","toadies"],"id":16524,"author_id":"Connie+Kingrey+Anderson"},{"text":"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.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["anti-smoking","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"],"id":26558,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"There's only one way in and one way out of this world.","author":"Sarah Beth Durst","tags":["conjured","creepy","world"],"id":33193,"author_id":"Sarah+Beth+Durst"},{"text":"And feast on the dead, I thought with a shudder. As if he could read my thoughts, he pressed a hand to my shoulder. His fingers were long and white, splaying over my arm like a waxen spider. If the gesture was meant to comfort me, it failed.","author":"Leigh Bardugo","tags":["creepy","good-writing","metaphor"],"id":37689,"author_id":"Leigh+Bardugo"},{"text":"Cemeteries can be creepy, creepy, ‘specially at night.","author":"Jason Medina","tags":["a-ghost-in-new-orleans","afraid","cemeteries","creepy","fear","jason-medina","night","rini","scary","tribal-publications","tribal-publications-inc"],"id":40927,"author_id":"Jason+Medina"},{"text":"Falling in love IS bizarre and creepy.","author":"Tammy Blackwell","tags":["bizarre","creepy","falling-in-love","love"],"id":58412,"author_id":"Tammy+Blackwell"},{"text":"It's a big spooky place when you're in it alone. It's like you can hear all the whispers of all the voices of all the actors who ever played here. Kind of creepy. Like a church can be creepy when it's empty. You ever been in a church after hours?","author":"Benjamin R. Smith","tags":["acting","creepy","ghosts","playhouses"],"id":69194,"author_id":"Benjamin+R.+Smith"},{"text":"Death twitches my ear;'Live,' he says... 'I'm coming.","author":"Virgil","tags":["carpe-diem","creepy","death","death-and-dying","inspirational","living","philosophical","philosophy","seize-the-day"],"id":105869,"author_id":"Virgil"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":65,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}