‘(Starring Three Witches, also kings, daggers, crowns, storms, dwarfs, cats, ghosts, specters, apes, bandits, demons, forests, heirs, jesters, tortures, trolls, turntables, general rejoicing and divers alarums.)’
Categorie: boeken
Boek review: The Sittaford Mystery/ Het Sittaford Mysterie (Agatha Christie, 1931)
Boek Review: The ABC Murders/ Het ABC Mysterie (Agatha Christie, 1936)
‘“I admit,” I said, ‘“that a second murder in a book often cheers things up. If the murder happens in the first chapter, and you have to follow up everybody’s alibi until the last page but one – well, it does get a bit tedious.”’
Boek Review: House of Windows (John Langan, 2009)
‘”I disown you; I cast you from me. All bonds between us are sundered; let our blood no longer be true.”‘
Boek Review: The Shining (Stephen King, 1977)
‘Across the room was a mirror, and deep down in its silver bubble a single word appeared in green fire and that word was: REDRUM.’
Boek Review: The Book of Lost Things (John Connolly, 2006)
‘Stories wanted to be read, David’s mother would whisper. They needed it. It was the reason they forced themselves from their world into ours. They wanted us to give them life.’
Boek Review: Thin Air (Michelle Paver, 2016)
‘But there was someone, I heard him. He was right behind me, I heard the scrape of boots on grit. And I knew he was there, I had that unmistakeable feeling you get when you know you’re not alone.’
