Jonathan Dunne Horror Quotes

“That hideous face turns to us, and it is now, in the ambient light, that I begin to see the true nature of this nightmare roosting in my home.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Drive

“In the beginning, we are all strangers.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Hotel Miramar

“Afraid to go outside but more afraid of what might come inside, the Armstrongs stayed holed up in room 1401, skipping a buffet breakfast of salted frog’s legs and yellow-belly salamanders.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Hotel Miramar

“But evil hides amongst us.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Hotel Miramar

“The rhythmic whooshing of the waves fizzled away, and all he could hear were the seagulls and their incessant Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha mocking laughter. Dan's feathered friends stared down at him with their condemning eyes from their clifftop reverie. Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha the gulls squawked wicked mirth at him, the hapless jester, while the seabirds screamed and pointed their wings at him from their lofty galleries.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Hotel Miramar

“Tentatively, Peter Armstrong levered his fingers into the groove in the section of floorboards that had been fashioned into the secret door and lifted. He shone his flashlight down into the opening to see the ghoulish girls living in the floor, staring up at him. That mental snapshot would stay with the boy indefinitely. It was the strangest of strange notions, but the girls’ malformations and deformities had turned them into twin phantoms of nightmare”
― Jonathan Dunne, Hotel Miramar

“Peter Armstrong would've never guessed that the most difficult thing he would ever have to do in life was to pretend his loving parents hadn’t become loving monsters.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Hotel Miramar

“The last thing the 14-year-old wanted to do now was stay in the room with the two people he had once trusted with his life. Now, he didn’t trust his life with them.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Hotel Miramar

“The boy shook violently and wailed. It was a relief and a horror to hear the child — a horror to hear his pained screams, but a relief to know he was alive enough to scream.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Hotel Miramar

“Equipped with this mortal knowledge, Shelly Starkweather put her immortal plan into action.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Dead Ends

“No, wait...the eyes. The eyes are dead! The windows to Brendan's soul have been boarded up.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Dead Ends

“It rises from the funeral pyre of rubble, ash, and scorched memories to stare Max in the eyeballs, stand right over him in his lonely bed and whisper a hissing, fire-branding warning in his dreams, ‘Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust…’ over and over again, so close to his face he can feel the heat emanating from the fiery lick of its tongue. Fireman is trying to tell him something he already knows, but Max doesn’t know it yet. Wake up, damn you! It’s staring you in the face…”
― Jonathan Dunne, Dead Ends

“It was a withered and crooked thing, blind as a newborn puppy.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Drive

“There was much to be said for lone wolves, but more went unsaid.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Fireman

“This wasn’t going how Fireman thought it was going to go…but he knew the ending, no matter how they got there.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Fireman

“Dan and Linda saw the old Max Power in the stark wide-eyed stare through the ligatures and gauze before dimming to that unblinking thing flourishing beneath the corset of bandages.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Fireman

“Nobody ever forgot Ash Man when they met him, but they forgot themselves.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Fireman