THURSDAY 13: Novel 1st Lines | Part 4 | Thriler Horror

I've gone all horror and thriller today! :) 

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40. Behavioral Science, the FBI section that deals with serial murder, is on the bottom floor of the Academy building at Quantico, half-buried in the earth.
Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs, [1988]

41. Red sees the corpse's feet as he walks through the door.
Boris Starling, Messiah, [1999]


42. They couldn't really be called nightmares, because Bobby Carter experienced them in the daytime as well.
David Ferring, The Hills Have Eyes part 2 The lucky ones were already dead...[1984]

43. With the woman on his mind and a deep uneasiness in his heart, Spencer Grant drove through the glistening night, in search for the red door.
Dean Koontz, Dark Rivers of the Heart, [1994]

44. She sits in the corner trying to draw air out of a room which seemed to have plenty a few minutes ago, and now seems to have none.
Stephen King, Rose Madder, [1995]

45. When Archbishop Richard Rushman, known to Catholic, Protestant, and Jew alike as 'the Saint of Lakeview Drive', because of his great charitable works, stepped out of the shower he had less than ten minutes to live.
William Diehl, Primal Fear, [1992]

46. As soon as he stepped into the dim appartment he knew he was dead.
Jeffery Deaver, Garden of Beasts, [2004]

47. The small mounds of dark earth scattered around the graveyard looked as though the dead were pushing their way back into the living world.
James Herbert, Shrine, [1983]

48. It was midnight on the day of his nineteenth birthday and exactly a week before the funfair arrived that David Carter saw The Claw.
Steve Harris, Adventureland, [1990]

49. The knife felt cold against her flesh.
Shaun Hutson, Relics, [1986]

50. Alarms first went off in my head when the landlord and the lobsterman showed me what had been washed up on the beach.
Mo Hayder, Pig Island, [2006]

51. 'Help! Someone - anyone - please, help me!'
William Hussey, Witchfinder; Dawn of the Demontide, [2010] YA horror | Website |


Saving one of the best to last (I'd forgotten how good this one was. Is it too long? I don't think all authors could get this one past their editors.)

52. Shortly before being knocked out unconscious and bound to a chair, before being injected with an unknown substance against his will, and before discovering that the world was deeply mysterious in ways he'd never before imagined, Dylan O'Conner left his motel room and walked across the highway to a brightly lighted fast-food franchise to buy cheeseburgers, French fries, pockets pies with apple filling, and a vanilla milkshake.
Dean Koontz, By the Light of the Moon, [2002]

What's your Thursday 13?

Sassy

:)

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