Gustaf Fjaestad (Swedish, 1868-1948), Winter Night
“The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?”
J. B. PRIESTLEY
Mikhail Georgievich Abakumov
Gregory Packard
“Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person.” —Sylvia Plath
Claude Monet
“But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous a** as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you.”
— Stephen King, Salem’s Lot-
Today for Linda G Hill’s One Liner Wednesday I’ve chosen this quote from Shirley Jackson about her process for writing ghost stories-
She read ” Little Women ” to chase away the ghosts that filled her head before she went to sleep-
me, I eat something spicy and hope for the best ( wink ).
I hope you enjoy her quote and the two haunted houses I dug up for you to look at:
The Villisca Ax Murders House
I was already doing a lot of splendid research reading all the books about ghosts I could get hold of, and particularly true ghost stories – so much so that it became necessary for me to read a chapter of _Little Women_ every night before I turned out the light – and at the same time I was collecting pictures of houses, particularly odd houses, to see what I could find to make into a suitable haunted house.
Abandoned Home