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“One grave in every graveyard belongs to the ghouls. Wander any graveyard long enough and you will find it - water stained and bulging, with cracked or broken stone, scraggly grass or rank weeds about it, and a feeling, when you reach it, of abandonment. It may be colder than the other gravestones, too, and the name on the stone is all too often impossible to read. If there is a statue on the grave it will be headless or so scabbed with fungus and lichens as to look like fungus itself. If one grave in a graveyard looks like a target for petty vandals, that is the ghoul-gate. If the grave wants to make you be somewhere else, that is the ghoul-gate.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book (2008)

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Date: 2014-10-06 06:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ankh-hpl.livejournal.com
What a lovely bite- sized chill!

Date: 2014-10-07 01:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com
Yay! Thank you!

Date: 2014-10-06 07:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] byslantedlight.livejournal.com
Oh, one of my favourite books of 2014! Gorgeous photo too...
Edited Date: 2014-10-06 07:25 pm (UTC)

Date: 2014-10-07 01:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com
I love that book! I'm so tickled that you liked the photo, too. :)

Date: 2014-10-06 10:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] witchcat07.livejournal.com
Creepy! ...and kinda sad.

Date: 2014-10-07 01:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com
I agree - on both counts. :( There's nothing quite so sobering, I think, as an untended or abandoned gravesite.

Date: 2014-10-06 11:18 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] primroseburrows.livejournal.com
I have not read The Graveyard Book yet, and I'm a big fan of Neil's. Must rectify.
Edited Date: 2014-10-06 11:19 pm (UTC)

Date: 2014-10-07 01:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com
Oh, I think you'll love it! It's *perfect* October reading. :)

Date: 2014-10-06 11:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] homespunheart.livejournal.com
Rereading (listening to) THE GRAVEYARD BOOK right now!! Perfect for counting down to Halloween! This is an especially spooky bit.
Edited Date: 2014-10-06 11:48 pm (UTC)

Date: 2014-10-07 01:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com
Hey, we're on the same wavelength! (No surprise there. *wink*) Perfect for Halloween, indeed! I'm glad you like this spooky bit. I just love the description.

Date: 2014-10-07 06:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cookiefleck.livejournal.com
"...scabbed with fungus..."

I like that.

Date: 2014-10-07 01:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com
Isn't that a perfect description?

Date: 2014-10-07 10:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gilda-elise.livejournal.com
Oh, spooky! And what a frighteningly creepy headstone. It does make you almost believe that, yes, there's a ghoul around somewhere.

Date: 2014-10-07 02:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com
I know, right? I'm glad you found that headstone to be creepy, too. The way the roots are growing around it... ack!

I *love* your icon, BTW.
Edited Date: 2014-10-07 02:03 pm (UTC)

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