“That's how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It recreates some forgotten terror. Something we'd like to think we're grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. It's something you'd hoped was healed.”

— Chuck Palahniuk , book Haunted

Source: Haunted (2005), Chapter 19, Hot Potting, A story by Baroness Frostbite

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American novelist, essayist 1962

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