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Quotes About Eerie

The eerie disposition between player and piano put me in mind of Schroeder, banging out Beethoven on a toy.
~ Lionel Shriver
Everything in Venice is just a little bit creepy, as much as it's beautiful.
~ Christopher Moore
Hello there, officer, just out for a walk. Lovely evening for a dismemberment, isn't it?
~ Jeff Lindsay
The world around him grew silent; there was something in the air. The odor of dead meat came down on the wind, drifting through the trees. Soft and sour, the smell of distant death.
~ Jeff Shaara
I realised that today we are very much interested in reading about subjects that would have also interested people in the 1500s: ghosts, demons and things that go bump in the night.
~ Deborah Harkness
Witch and ghost make merry On this last of dear Octoberís days.
~ Unknown
Hawksmoor had often noticed how, in the moments when he first carne upon a corpse, all the objects around it wavered for an instant and became unreal- the trees which rose above a body hidden in woodland, the movement of the river which had washed a body onto its banks, the cars or hedges in a suburban street where a murderer had left a victim, all of these things seemed at such times to be suddenly drained of meaning like an hallucination.
~ Peter Ackroyd
It was the unhappy perception at the center of every ghost story.
~ Peter Straub
like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium.
~ Dean Koontz
Las noches ofrecen sapos, perros negro y cadáveres de ahogados.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
More silence; children's silence, so desperately desired by adults yet eerie when it finally occurs.
~ Zadie Smith
fangosa. El paisaje es agresivo, y reina en él un silencio de muerte. Al atardecer, sin embargo
~ Horacio Quiroga
I was struck by the ancient, pagan feel of the place. New Orleans doesn't feel like any other American city I've been to. It has an atmosphere like Rome or Istanbul, a sense of the veil being very thin between this world and the world of the fictional and the dead. It is an eerie, haunted, and beautiful place - as any port should be.
~ Craig Ferguson
You kind of invite a little spooky, creepy vibe into your whole experience of making a movie.
~ Bruce Greenwood
I never learned the answer, nor did the answer matter, for one of the eerie and liberating aspects of broadcast discourse is that nothing one says will alter in the slightest either the form or the length of the conversation.
~ Joan Didion
That chap looks as if he ate a girl's kidney last night.
~ Poppy Z. Brite
Nox atra cava circumvolat umbra
~ Unknown
I can see ghosts.
~ R.L. Stine
dimmed completely.
~ R.L. Stine
atmosphere.
~ R.L. Stine
eerie in a way it is nowhere else in the world, the flats receding and the low hills rising as if they are just fields of mist and walls of fog, illusions of shapes and dimensions, reflections of reflections, and those reflections only reflections of a dream.
~ Dean Koontz
The combination of the song, the birthmark, and the cashier's haunting gray eyes generates in Vess an eerie sense of expectancy. Something exceptional is about to happen.
~ Dean Koontz
Twilight was coming on, and so was a storm. In the eerie light beneath the clouds, even the thoroughly modern houses along the road looked as ancient and as sinister as the weathered Pictish stone that stood a hundred feet away, guarding the crossroads it had marked for a thousand years. It seemed a good night to be inside with the shutters fastened.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I'm never more encouraged than to hear someone talk about how eerie it is that I move like my father.
~ Michael C. Hall