Matthew Sturges
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House of Mystery, Volume 1: Room and Boredom
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2009
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House of Mystery, Volume 2: Love Stories for Dead People
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2009
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House of Mystery, Volume 3: The Space Between
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2010
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Fables: The Wolf Among Us, Volume 2
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2016
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House of Mystery, Volume 5: Under New Management
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2011
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House of Mystery, Volume 4: The Beauty of Decay
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2010
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Thor: Season One
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2013
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Midwinter
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2001
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House of Mystery, Volume 6: Safe as Houses
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2011
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House of Mystery, Volume 7: Conception
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2011
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“It’s the Longing that ultimately undoes you. When it finds you, it gnaws at your bones and tugs at your chest. It fills you up inside like rot and makes you dream dreams and it drowns you. The Longing keeps you in bed, clutching at your sheets while the world goes on outside. It smells like old leaves and cigarette smoke, mixed with the scent of far-off places you will hear of, but never see. It’s the gloss on a lover’s lips the moment you realize you will never kiss those lips again. It is the bittersweet, unrequited love of creation and it will break your heart again and again and again. If you know the Longing the way I do, then these words are redundant. We understand each other perfectly, you and I.”
― House of Mystery, Volume 1: Room and Boredom
― House of Mystery, Volume 1: Room and Boredom
“Lovecraft said that the oldest and strongest type of fear is the fear of the unknown. And he was an authority on such matters.
But that's not exactly it, is it?
We like the unknown. We're hunky dory with the unknown. We are, in fact, perfectly thrilled with the unknown -- as long as it remains unknown and we never have to think about it.
What we're really afraid of is that the unknown will stand up and demand to be recognized. That it won't get out of the way quickly enough and we'll step in it, all squishy and moist. We're terrified at night in the dark that the rough, slouching unknown will crawl into bed and give us a hot wet kiss on the neck.
We're not afraid of the unknown. We're afraid of the unknown becoming known.”
― House of Mystery, Volume 2: Love Stories for Dead People
But that's not exactly it, is it?
We like the unknown. We're hunky dory with the unknown. We are, in fact, perfectly thrilled with the unknown -- as long as it remains unknown and we never have to think about it.
What we're really afraid of is that the unknown will stand up and demand to be recognized. That it won't get out of the way quickly enough and we'll step in it, all squishy and moist. We're terrified at night in the dark that the rough, slouching unknown will crawl into bed and give us a hot wet kiss on the neck.
We're not afraid of the unknown. We're afraid of the unknown becoming known.”
― House of Mystery, Volume 2: Love Stories for Dead People
“You people with your quests annoy the pants off me.”
― House of Mystery, Volume 5: Under New Management
― House of Mystery, Volume 5: Under New Management
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