Brian McNaughton

"When I was three or four, an older kid tried to scare me away from a barn full of dangerous junk by telling me the Bogeyman lived there. I spent a lot of time crawling around beneath rusted machinery …"

"For all their laughter, ghouls are a dull lot. Hunger is the fire in which they burn, and it burns hotter than the hunger for power over men or for knowledge of the gods in a crazed mortal. It vaporiz…"

"I believe that we are soft creatures in a world with some very hard edges. It's remarkable that we survive at all, much less do high deeds or write great music. I think … tension … is a condition of o…"

"Vampires, like virgins or priests, are things that women believe in. We must never fail to humor them in such matters."

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"I had always been impatient with superstition. If I ever met a God, I would apologize for disbelieving in Him, but not until then."