Haunted Houses Quotes

“I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“When people see tears, they stop listening to your hands or your words or anything else you have to say. And it doesn't matter if the tears are angry or sad, frightened or frustrated. All they see is a girl crying.”
― Victoria Schwab, Gallant

“And that is how someone who is unusally susceptible to nightmares, night terrors, the Creeps, the Willies and the Seeing Things That Aren't Really There talks himself into making one last trip to the abandoned, almost-certainly-haunted house where a dozen or more children met their untimely end.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“Being dead does have its advantages.”-Alastor”
― Dana Michelle Burnett, Spiritus

“Everything that’s loved lives.”
― Mira Grant, In the Shadow of Spindrift House

“As the thing came closer, what was left of Nick’s body became revealed and I could see how the dead boy’s eyes had bled from the trauma inflicted upon him; they dripped with steady succession onto the floor between his splayed legs. He looked like a rejected marionette tossed haphazardly in the corner by a frustrated puppeteer, his head drooping so low that his chin rested against his chest. His motionless arms lay at his sides, both of them squeezed into tight fists, as if he’d died futilely trying to defend himself.”
― J. Tonzelli, The End of Summer: Thirteen Tales of Halloween

“The scratching came from the attic. At night, when Rory turned out the light I would lie awake and wait for it to skit, skit, skit lightly across the floorboards above our heads and down behind the water pipes.”
― Kate Chisman, Creep

“There's only one force that's strong enough to conquer those in Witch House, and you know how to manipulate it; you turned one current off and the other on. It was the very best kind of distraction."

He said, "Love always is.”
― Evangeline Walton

“It’s like a haunted house we can’t leave,’ Neil said.
A haunted house we’re afraid to leave, Tony thought.”
― Christopher Pike, Chain Letter

“All the way up the house the windows were open; light came diagonally from window to window through corner rooms. Two storeys up, she could have heard a curtain rustle, but the mansion piled itself up in silence over the Montmorencys' voices.”
― Elizabeth Bowen, The Last September

“There are no haunted houses; there are only haunted minds!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan