Quotes About Eerie

Beneath the eerie calm of these unfathomable waters were deadly whirlpools of ambition, anger and unhappiness.

When the footpads quail at the night-bird's wail, and black dogs bay at the moon,Then is the specters' holiday—then is the ghosts' high noon!

the Indians were far too gentle, too peaceable, positively childlike. They squatted for whole evenings in their white straw hats on the earth, motionless as toadstools, content without light, silent. The sun and moon were enough light for them, an effeminate race, eerie but innocuous.

It was a brand-new graveyard.

gothic nightmares.

It is a haunted place, strange with secrets.

For me in a horror film, just looking down a long corridor and seeing somebody standing there, the simplest thing in the world, has a really seismic impact to me.

Their eyes were usually open, and they stared up at the moon that had killed them.

I was working in the lab late one night When my eyes beheld an eerie sight For my monster from his slab began to rise And suddenly to my surprise… He did the mash He did the monster mash The monster mash It was a graveyard smash…

I was working in the lab late one night When my eyes beheld an eerie sight. For my monster from his slab began to rise And suddenly to my surprise. He did the mash. He did the monster mash.

Nothing is more deadly than a deserted, waiting street.

The night-crawlers had retired, but ripe chinaberries drummed on the roof when the wind stirred, and the darkness was desolate with the barking of distant dogs.

Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.

Yeah, even a black comedy. Where it's a little eerie. I'd love to do that. But there are about three really fabulous ones on the air now and I don't know if I can do any better than that. I'd like to sort of forge new ground.

For me, Halloween is year-round. But my Halloween is the real Halloween - dealing with the real dead.

Faith aside, witchcraft served an eminently useful purpose. The aggravating, the confounding, the humiliating all dissolved in its cauldron. It made sense of the unfortunate and the eerie, the sick child and the rancid butter along with the killer cat. What else, shrugged one husband, could have caused the black and blue marks on his wife's arm?

Little by little, this book was beginning to give him a spooky feeling.

With shows like 'The X-Files' or 'Eerie, Indiana' - even though they would have comedic moments, even though they would have character moments - there was a sincerity about magic.

He looked like he came out of nightmare alley.

Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom. Never did tree or grass wave or rustle so ominously. Never did bough creak so mysteriously, and never did the far-away howling of dogs send such a woeful presage through the night.

And then there was silence, deep, awful silence, which chilled me.

bare trees with black clots of rookeries

Some of our hearts are more Gothic and take to haunting.

The clouds around us are strange, roiling and twisting even though there doesn't seem to be any sign of a storm. Worse, the sky has taken on an orange cast, like the setting sun, only it's too early for that.", FADE by Kailin Gow