Author: Michael Prescott

Cites

• Bible (4)
  • IN: In Dark Places (2004) Thriller, Suspense, Speculative fiction, Crime Fiction, Psychological Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the deeps.
    FROM: Psalm 89, (-165), Bible, NULL
  • IN: Next Victim (2002) Thriller, Suspense, American
    EPIGRAPH: For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.
    FROM: Hosea 8:8, (-165), Bible, NULL
• William Shakespeare (2)
  • IN: Stealing Faces (1999) Thriller, Suspense, Crime Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Light thickens, And the crow makes wing to th’ rooky wood; Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, Whiles night’s black agents to their preys do rouse.
    FROM: Macbeth, (1623), Play, UK
• Saki (H. H. Munro) (2)
  • IN: Last Breath (2001) Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Horror fiction, Psychological Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I don’t think any tragedy in literature that I have ever come across impressed me so much as the first one, that I spelled out slowly for myself in words of three letters: the bad fox has got the red hen. There was something so dramatically complete about it; the badness of the fox, added to all the traditional guile of his race, seemed to heighten the horror of the hen’s fate, and there was such a suggestion of masterful malice about the word “got.” One felt that a countryside in arms would not get that hen away from the bad fox.
    FROM: “The Unbearable Bassington”, (1912), Novel, UK
• Grandma Moses (2)
  • IN: Blind Pursuit (1996) Thriller, Suspense, American
    EPIGRAPH: I look back on my life like a good day’s work; it was done and I am satisfied with it.
    FROM: Grandma Moses : My Life's History, (1951), Book, US
• W. B. Yeats (2)
  • IN: Riptide (2010) Thriller, Suspense, American
    EPIGRAPH: I must lie down where all the ladders start In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.
    FROM: The circus Animal's Desertion, (1939), Poem, Ireland