You can send people letters, and show them photos, but they can never come to visit where you live. Unless you love them. And then they can burn it down.

Nobody likes to see a body, but it's better than seeing a ghost. Bodies just make you doubt the world and the people in it. Ghosts make you doubt everything, and to doubt it in a part of the mind that has no words to answer the question, where the comforting promises you make yourself are neither believed nor even really understood.

You can send people letters, and show them photos, but they can never come to visit where you live. Unless you love them. And then they can burn it down.

One of the most subtle and powerful writers of dark fiction - a unique voice.

When a writer with a voice as good as Richard Christian Matheson's tells you something, you have no choice but to listen. In THE RITUAL OF ILLUSION the voices are legion, and the gaps between their testimonies drag us closer to understanding the darkly beating heart of all our, ephemeral, transfixing dreams. Dark, subtle, horrifically funny.

My limited experience of such things told me that you get closest to the truth by not giving it advance warning that you're coming after it.

Being truly aimless is like being dead. It may even be the same thing, or worse. It is the aimless who find the wrong roads, and drive down them, simply because they have nowhere else to go.