Chompa

“Because Donut sounded like a helium-drunk cat being crushed by a steamroller when she attempted to sing, that was why. And even though she wasn’t that bad of a dancer, when it came to making a song emerge from that tone-deaf gullet of hers, her rhythm was that of a drunk, three-legged donkey trying to negotiate its way down a set of ice-covered stairs.”
― Matt Dinniman, The Butcher's Masquerade

“I treated her as if she had human sympathies, in the hope that they might be generated somehow.”
― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Uncle Silas

“But its strangest feature is that the more its citizens feel it is broken, the more broken it actually becomes.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, The Tainted Cup

“You are right in supposing that I have not been led lightly into a belief in the marvelous— for what I have experienced is marvelous— and I have been forced by extraordinary evidence to credit that which ran counter, diametrically, to all my theories.”
― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla