{"quotes":[{"text":"I was reaching for one of the handles when I heard Heidler’s voice from behind me. ‘It would not be wise to enter. It is a bad time to disturb the dead.","author":"Micheal Rivers","tags":["castles","druid","ghosts","mystery-suspense","political-thriller","psychological-thriller","supernatural","supernatural-thrillers"],"id":9230,"author_id":"Micheal+Rivers"},{"text":"Events That Haunt The Mind And Scar It With Nightmares Are Never What They Seem...","author":"P.W. Creighton","tags":["contemporary","new-adult","nightfall","paranormal","paranormal-romance","paranormal-suspense","supernatural-thrillers"],"id":10369,"author_id":"P.W.+Creighton"},{"text":"She stood in the snow, effervescent, all pale skin and blonde hair, clad in white and bathed in moonlight. She should have looked angelic, instead she looked like a corpse, freshly raised from the grave, frosted in ice and darkness, swaying precariously in a graveyard.","author":"Hazel Butler","tags":["contemporary-fantasy","ghost-stories","ghosts","gothic","gothic-fantasy","gothic-fiction","gothic-horror","gothic-literature","paranormal-fiction","paranormal-mystery","paranormal-thriller","supernatural-mystery","supernatural-thrillers","urban-fantasy","urban-fantasy-series"],"id":43282,"author_id":"Hazel+Butler"},{"text":"My whole life changed after I drowned and died in the flood.","author":"Kerry Alan Denney","tags":["horror","horror-fiction","paranormal","paranormal-thriller","science-fiction-thrillers","scifi","scifi-adventure","supernatural-powers","supernatural-suspense","supernatural-thrillers","urban-fantasy"],"id":56838,"author_id":"Kerry+Alan+Denney"},{"text":"Death begins before birth. I have always found this an odd notion, but were it not for the death of certain cells during our initial development, humans would be born with webbed toes. Death moulds our physical being from the very start of our existence. It sculpts us, determines how we begin, and where we end. The events in life that define us, that break us and remake us, all stem from death—the death of a place, a time, a relationship, of those we hold most dear, and finally ourselves. Death is the one inescapable aspect of life, the only immutable force, the single thing in this world that cannot and should not be changed.But death is never the end.It is the beginning.","author":"Hazel Butler","tags":["contemporary-fantasy","death","depression","gothic","gothic-fantasy","gothic-fiction","gothic-literature","paranormal-fiction","paranormal-mystery","paranormal-thriller","supernatural-mystery","supernatural-thrillers","urban-fantasy","urban-fantasy-series"],"id":60567,"author_id":"Hazel+Butler"},{"text":"It seemed for a moment as if something was there, loitering between the knurled and towering cherry trees, a flash of a presence as stark as the sight of the snow against their bare branches and cracked, piceous bark. Unblinking, I watched the edge of the lake, waiting for it to reappear, but whatever it had been was gone, vanished under cover of a willow tree, lofty and dense, rearing over the lake, its branches dripping all the way to the ground. The tree’s lament had been transformed into a thing of such beauty I was tempted to go and hide within it.","author":"Hazel Butler","tags":["contemporary-fantasy","ghost-story","ghosts","gothic","gothic-fantasy","gothic-fiction","gothic-horror","gothic-literature","paranormal-fiction","paranormal-mystery","paranormal-thriller","supernatural-mystery","supernatural-thrillers","urban-fantasy","urban-fantasy-series"],"id":68163,"author_id":"Hazel+Butler"},{"text":"She holds you like a whore in the night, but she'll take your soul and not think twice.","author":"Micheal Rivers","tags":["dark-fantasy","horror","paranormal-thriller","sailing","sea-stories","shipwreck","supernatural-powers","supernatural-thrillers","voyages"],"id":94701,"author_id":"Micheal+Rivers"},{"text":"The past had already been dealt with, to one end or another, it was certain, fixed, the horror of it was already over.For the living at least. They grieved, yes, but they were not trapped in the terror of the moment.Not so for my poor, elegant wraiths. They were like the old-fashioned zoetropes you find at the seaside: a tiny slice of a world in a box, brief yet somehow also eternal.","author":"Hazel Butler","tags":["contemporary-fantasy","ghost-story","ghosts","gothic","gothic-fantasy","gothic-fiction","gothic-horror","gothic-literature","paranormal-fiction","paranormal-mystery","paranormal-thriller","supernatural-mystery","supernatural-thrillers","urban-fantasy","urban-fantasy-series"],"id":100431,"author_id":"Hazel+Butler"},{"text":"Fear is a prison in which we place ourselves. You need only to press against the bars to realize that the door is always unlocked, and you are always free to leave.","author":"Luna DeMasi","tags":["fiction","monsters","paranormal","paranormal-thriller","supernatural-thriller","supernatural-thrillers","urban-fantasy"],"id":120675,"author_id":"Luna+DeMasi"},{"text":"They are from another world, another way of life that somehow has merged with our own. These worlds are kept separate for the safety of everyone. ' 'And yet, I connect them.' 'You do.","author":"Meredith T. Taylor","tags":["conflict","connections-connect","mermaids","siren","supernatural","supernatural-powers","supernatural-romance","supernatural-thrillers","suspense","suspense-romance"],"id":132064,"author_id":"Meredith+T.+Taylor"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":29,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}