A book may only be judged for what it is, not what you'd like it to be.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will poke out his eye to fit in.

All too infrequently do I encounter a new voice as delightful, compelling, and intelligent as that of Molly Tanzer.

Ghosts are those memories that are too strong to be forgotten for good, echoing across the years and refusing to be obliterated by time.

A book may only be judged for what it is, not what you'd like it to be.

Assassination is almost always unthinkable to moral, thinking men until after a holocaust has come and gone.

Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousand different ways. A book, a poem, a song, a bedtime story, a grandmother's suicide, the choreography of a dance, a few frames of film, a diagnosis of schizophrenia, a deadly tumble from a horse, a faded photograph, or a story you tell your daughter.