5 Quotes by Brian McNaughton

Vampires, like virgins or priests, are things that women believe in. We must never fail to humor them in such matters.

Fear, if not accompanied by pain, turns into a habit

Goul or ghul, in Arabic, signifies any terrifying object which deprives people of the use of their senses; hence it became the appellative of that species of monster which was supposed to haunt forests, cemeteries, and other lonely places, and believed not only to tear in pieces the living, but to dig up and devour the dead.

Fear, if not accompanied by pain, turns into a habit.

She screamed now. She raved. She raged through the tomb, strewing bones in her wake, tearing limbs and heads from desiccated bodies. She hated the dead. She hated the living even more, those who had abandoned her and still breathed the open air.