Quotes from Scott Thomas

Horror is a lot like sex," Moore continued. "It's raw and it's primal and when it's good—when it's really good—it even hurts a little. But the good kind of pain, you know?

He was not above calling a book unreadable. But their literary merit wasn't important at this moment. They were words strung together to represent the firing of neurons and the transferring of information through synapses. They were human minds set into paper, and Sebastian loved every single one of them, even the ones he found disposable.

A house stained by spilled blood cannot escape the harsh sentence passed by rumor.

No house is born bad. Most are thought of fondly, even lovingly. In the beginning, the house on Kill Creek was no exception.

And as the hands of the clocks clicked to eight past one, the house awoke to the sudden and definite realization that now was the time. It had waited long enough. It was time to play.

There's something about old houses at sunset...they are ghosts made of wood, softening in the dusk that comes upon them like a tide.

Funny thing about rumors," Sebastian said softly. "It doesn't matter if they're true or false, only that people believe them.

the gospel is not at work in the life of church leaders, then it is highly unlikely it will be at work in the life of the church.

Since we are in Christ, we have a missionary identity. We are adopted into a missionary family. We serve a missionary God. Mission becomes part of our identity, because our Father is a missionary God and we resemble him as children of God. The church is a missionary church with missionary people who do missionary things for the glory of our missionary God. This is who we are, but it is also what we do.

But ministry growth is never a good indicator of a church leader's spiritual and emotional health.

This is just fantastic. We spend one night in that house, and now we're on a goddamn supernatural scavenger hunt.

They were human minds set into paper, and Sebastian loved every single one of them, even the ones he found disposable.

Adudel's words found their way to the group: "You belong to the house now.

It was an old soul in a new shell.

Horror is the result of sin. Sin gives way to temptation. Temptation is the number-one weapon of the Devil.

You have an honest way of writing, especially your first book. It's genuine. That may not seem like the most thrilling compliment, but a voice like yours—a real voice—is rare these days.

Whatever entity now resided within its walls, it found life through a legacy of tragedy and fear.

Yet all of his memories were fading like old photographs.

She was thirty-eight years old and cut like marble. Defined, but not obscenely muscular. Sexy, but not grotesque.

That place is haunted, don't you know?

Four: Corruption of the Innocent. That's you guys.

This is perhaps the most important element of any good Gothic horror story. Without it, what do you have? A shitty old dump with a dark history no one remembers or cares about. You need that one person who ensures that the evil lives on.

For those in local church ministry, your Sabbath is not going to be Sunday. Don't even try. But you need one day to allow God to have the room, space, and quiet needed to renew your soul.

The wave of night receded once more and the face was staring up at him, body hunched down on the floor, head cocked, sunken cheek pressed against the side of the mattress, teeth clenched in a lipless grin.