There were no such things as dragons, were there? Only in stories. Only in tales told around the hearth on winter’s nights, to set you shivering with cozy fear.
No Such Thing As Dragons
Philip Reeve
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Quotes
Frost Giant
The Frost Giant peered down at him. There were icicles in its eyebrows, and its eyes were the color of lake ice.
Odd and the Frost Giants
Neil Gaiman
The Spindlers
Edgar Allen Poe
To unravel that life of mystery and imagination, we have to start at the beginning, when the man was just a boy, and when Edgar was called Eddie.
Eddie: The Lost Youth of Edgar Allen Poe
Scott Gustafson
Residual Traces
“Won’t be a moment, madam. Just looking for residual traces of paranormal malignance, something indicative of heinous moral grotesquery.”
Beastly Bones
William Ritter
The Peculiar
Standard Equipment
An onlooker, recognizing us as psychic investigation agents, would have assumed that the bags were filled with the equipment of our trade: salt-bombs, lavender, iron filings, silver Seals and chains. This was in fact quite true, but I also carried a skull in a jar, so we weren’t entirely predictable.
The Hollow Boy
Jonathan Stroud
