# Creep Me Out With Your Closing Line.... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 14, 2005, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850 "2005-05-14T18:54:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850/21 "2005-05-15T14:39:58Z")
“I have no mouth, and I must scream…” ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850/22 "2005-05-15T15:00:54Z")
I don’t remember the story or the author, but… “Behind her in the darkness of the living room, someone cleared his throat…” ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850/23 "2005-05-15T15:09:41Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > “I can still see!” What’s the source of that? ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850/24 "2005-05-15T15:38:23Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > What’s the source of that? It’s from _The Man With the X-Ray Eyes_ (at least I think that’s what it was called). It’s an old sci-fi movie about a mad scientist type who invents some kind of eye drops that give him X-ray vision. At first it’s cool because he can see through clothes and stuff but then the whole thing starts to go ape shit on him and all he sees is like skeletons and he can’t sleep because he can see through his eyelids. Eventually he starts seeing “other dimensions” and he starts to go crazy. At the end he finally plucks his own eyeballs out. The theater cut of the movie just ends with a shot of his empty eye-sockets but the original cut ends with him screaming the line I quoted. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850/25 "2005-05-15T16:11:10Z")
Oh, I read “The Humanist Jew” YEARS ago. That’s the one where the rich guy moves into a secret chamber in his house during the Holocaust and depends on his gentile servants to bring him food and water, and they kinda don’t ever bother to tell him that the War is over… “I know, because I’ve tried. And tried. And tried.” That’s the Jack Finney story about the rocket ship to Paradise. Blanking on the title at the moment. “Behind her, in the living room, somebody cleared his throat.” That’s Ray Bradbury, a chapter from _Dandelion Wine_. But I’ve seen it lifted out and printed as a short story. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850/26 "2005-05-15T16:12:23Z")
“In pace requiescat!” Poe, “Cask of Amontillado.” ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850/27 "2005-05-15T16:13:35Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > _In pace requiescat!_ Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”, _n’est-pas?_ My first one is “Love Me, Love Me, Love Me”. The first person narrator is destroyed by a ghost whose touch causes the flesh to rot. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850/28 "2005-05-15T16:32:04Z")
Next day it snowed, and killed off half the crops–but it was a _good_ day. ---
**Author:** ![Just1Lurk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c0e974/32.png) [@Just1Lurk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just1Lurk)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850/29 "2005-05-15T16:43:40Z")
“And then some fool ruined it all by turning on the light.” I can’t remember the title and the quote might not be exact, but it’s Bradybury. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850/30 "2005-05-15T17:06:31Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > Next day it snowed, and killed off half the crops–but it was a _good_ day. “It’s a _Good_ Life” I wanna say Jerome Bixby. > [@Chefguy](#): > > “I have no mouth, and I must scream…” Harlan Ellison. The quote is the title as well. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850/31 "2005-05-15T17:08:10Z")
> [@Ukulele Ike](#): > > Oh, I read “The Humanist Jew” YEARS ago. That’s the one where the rich guy moves into a secret chamber in his house during the Holocaust and depends on his gentile servants to bring him food and water, and they kinda don’t ever bother to tell him that the War is over… > > “I know, because I’ve tried. And tried. And tried.” > > That’s the Jack Finney story about the rocket ship to Paradise. Blanking on the title at the moment. Both right. Let’s do an easy one - > [@](#): > > Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850/32 "2005-05-15T17:09:46Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out. The Nine Billion Names of God - Arthur C. Clarke ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850/33 "2005-05-15T17:15:50Z")
> [@This Year's Model](#): > > “It’s a _Good_ Life” I wanna say Jerome Bixby. Yep, Jerome Bixby. Definitely a contender for Creepiest Story of All Time. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850/34 "2005-05-15T17:20:22Z")
I’ll try one: “Why, she wouldn’t even harm a fly…” ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850/35 "2005-05-15T17:45:37Z")
> [@This Year's Model](#): > > I’ll try one: > > “Why, she wouldn’t even harm a fly…” _The Bad Seed_? ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850/36 "2005-05-15T17:46:45Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > _The Bad Seed_? Nope. ---
**Author:** ![Darkhold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@Darkhold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darkhold)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850/37 "2005-05-15T17:46:58Z")
> [@](#): > > He tried to be brave, but Leoff was not made for pain, and after a time he screamed, and cried, and begged for an end to it. > > But it did not end Well if anyone has read the book they’ll spot it in a second. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850/38 "2005-05-15T17:49:56Z")
“I am not so glad. All day it is cold in here. The chain comes slow out of the wall. I have a bad anger with mother and father… If they try to beat me again I’ll hurt them. I will.” ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850/39 "2005-05-15T17:51:57Z")
> [@This Year's Model](#): > > I’ll try one: > > “Why, she wouldn’t even harm a fly…” _Psycho._ Nobody has gotten mine from yesterday: “From the burning world beyond the studio came the wind whisper of the plague of locusts.” ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2005, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850/40 "2005-05-15T17:53:24Z")
> [@This Year's Model](#): > > I’ll try one: > > “Why, she wouldn’t even harm a fly…” Psycho. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850.md?page=3)