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1 " Are you going to tell me what that was about?” Adam asked as we went back upstairs.“Sometime,” I told him. “When we're telling ghost stories around a campfire, and I want to scare you. "
― Patricia Briggs , Bone Crossed (Mercy Thompson, #4)
2 " Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one another: things that couldn't possibly happen. "
― Lois Lowry , Number the Stars
3 " The world of shadows and superstition that was Victorian England, so well depicted in this 1871 tale, was unique. While the foundations of so much of our present knowledge of subjects like medicine, public health, electricity, chemistry and agriculture, were being, if not laid, at least mapped out, people could still believe in the existence of devils and demons. And why not? A good ghost story is pure entertainment. It was not until well into the twentieth century that ghost stories began to have a deeper significance and to become allegorical; in fact, to lose their charm. No mental effort is required to read 'The Weird Woman', no seeking for hidden meanings; there are no complexities of plot, no allegory on the state of the world. And so it should be. At what other point in literary history could a man, standing over the body of his fiancee, say such a line as this: 'Speak, hound! Or, by heaven, this night shall witness two murders instead of one!'Those were the days.(introduction to " The Weird Woman" ) "
4 " Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts. "
― Brian W. Aldiss
5 " Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts. "
