"A shifting black pillar dominates the room, writhing and contorting as though in agony. As you approach, you see glinting beaks and mad eyes and, here or there, the shape of a wing." -A House of Many Doors (2017).
"The vintage Furby is good condition and has been tested and is working properly. The Furby's eyelashes have come loose and are being kept with the Furby but are not attached."
"Every nine years nine men enter the house so that I may deliver them from evil. I hear their steps or their voices in the depths of the stone galleries and I run joyfully to find them. The ceremony lasts a few minutes." -Jorge Luis Borges, "The House of Asterion" (1964).