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Brian McNaughton (23 September 1935 – 13 May 2004) was an American writer of horror and fantasy stories who mixed horror, sex, satire and dark humour. The Throne of Bones, a collection of some of his tales about ghouls, won the 1998 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection.
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Vampires, like virgins or priests, are things that women believe in. We must never fail to humor them in such matters.
They see their fellows as impediments to feeding, to be mauled and shrieked at when the mourners go home.
The Throne of Bones (1997)
For all their laughter, ghouls are a dull lot.
The Throne of Bones (1997)
I had always been impatient with superstition. If I ever met a God, I would apologize for disbelieving in Him, but not until then.
The Throne of Bones (1997)
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 and through barbed wire looking for the Bogeyman, but no luck.
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 our existence, and I do my best to depict it.
Goul or ghul, in Arabic, signifies any terrifying object which deprives people of the use of their senses; hence it became the appellative of that species of monster which was supposed to haunt forests, cemeteries, and other lonely places, and believed not only to tear in pieces the living, but to dig up and devour the dead.
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