I can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I always want to frighten them more.
Shirley JacksonToday my winged horse is coming and I am carrying you off to the moon and on the moon we will eat rose petals.
Shirley JacksonNo, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor of superstition and have no substitute defense.
Shirley Jackson