he night beyond the window was still, mordant white snow, punctuated only by the eerie dark of the trees, gumshoeing their way along the edge of the path outside. Their skeletal fingers clawed up at the stars, held down by an insidious, weightless lacing of snowflakes. I gazed idly at the moon and wondered if it truly had the power to sway the will of men.
Hazel Butler, Chasing Azrael
contemporary-fantasy, gothic, gothic-fiction, gothic-horror, gothic-literature, horror, murder-mystery, mystery, paranormal-fiction, paranormal-mystery, paranormal-thriller, supernatural-mystery, supernatural-thrillers, urban-fantasy, urban-fantasy-series