# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850/121 "2005-05-17T14:33:08Z")
“The Yellow Wallpaper”, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. One of those stories that made me want to crawl into the pages and smack the men. Still no guesses on my last one? ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850/122 "2005-05-17T19:16:50Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#): > > I don’t remember the story or the author, but… > > “Behind her in the darkness of the living room, someone cleared his throat…” Dammit…you took mine. How about this one? “Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.” ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850/123 "2005-05-17T22:42:41Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > “From the burning world beyond the studio came the wind whisper of the plague of locusts.” Nathanael West, “Day of the Locusts” ? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850/124 "2005-05-18T01:36:59Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > “He loved Big Brother.” > > What, too easy? Just in case anyone doesn’t know, it’s George Orwell’s _1984_. **jsc1953** , you took my answer – although the correct title is the singular _Day of the Locust_. Here’s my contribution: > [@](#): > > “Today is August 5, 2026, today is August 5, 2026, today is…” ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850/125 "2005-05-18T01:40:02Z")
“There Will Come Soft Rains”, from _The Martian Chronicles_, by the ever-popular Ray Bradbury. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850/126 "2005-05-18T02:41:57Z")
> [@Sarah Woodruff](#): > > Here’s a really obscure one which has stuck in my mind: > > “And my body fell over.” > > A few clues: > Author’s a well-known 20th century American writer, whose first novel was about war. > It’s a very short story, and it’s about WWI. Some call it a ghost story. I don’t the story but is the author Hemingway? Mine shouldn’t be too difficult: “‘Like a dog!’ he said; it was as if the shame of it must outlive him.” ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850/127 "2005-05-18T03:13:46Z")
> [@](#): > > What was the need to give these people to the fire, that the symbol of their passing might shine over Bethlehem? Not creepy in the usual sense of this thread, but it gets me every time. ---
**Author:** ![davenportavenger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@davenportavenger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davenportavenger)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850/128 "2005-05-18T04:14:39Z")
1. “They were already beginning to design weapons to use against each other.” 2. “He never saw Molly again.” 3. “He was very hungry that season.” ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850/129 "2005-05-18T11:58:20Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > Not creepy in the usual sense of this thread, but it gets me every time. “The Star” - Arthur C. Clarke ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850/130 "2005-05-18T12:04:09Z")
> [@](#): > > “They were already beginning to design weapons to use against each other.” _Second Variety_ by Philip K. Dick, which was the basis for the film **Screamers** , but also has a pretty good claim to inspiring some of **The Terminator** , I think. ---
**Author:** ![2nd\_Law](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/f475e1/32.png) [@2nd\_Law](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2nd_Law)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2005, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850/131 "2005-05-18T23:19:22Z")
> [@](#): > > She walked rapidly in the thin June sunlight towards the worst horror of all. The ending of this book certainly creeped me out. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850/132 "2005-05-19T00:47:01Z")
> [@](#): > > He was very hungry that season A Canticle for Leibowitz? Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850/133 "2005-05-19T01:09:29Z")
From a creepy hard-boiled novel made into a famous film noir: _“The moon.”_ ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850/134 "2005-05-19T03:24:54Z")
> [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#): > > _The Hunchback of Notre Dame_? I’d have loved to seen that ending in the Disney cartoon! Of course, the skeletons would either be singing a sad love song or cracking jokes. Actually, I’d love to see that ending in ANY movie version of NOTRE-DAME. I thought I’d seen a TV movie in the late 1970s in which she does get hanged but I can’t locate it. ---
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850/135 "2005-05-19T07:37:10Z")
“Not both of us. Only one of us,” said the girl, and before his eyes she passed straight through the door, and vanished. (it’s an obscure story, but it’s frightened the hell out of me ever since) ---
**Author:** ![Stone\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@Stone\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stone_Girl)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850/136 "2005-05-19T19:23:47Z")
> [@](#): > > “Nightmares,” he cried; “nightmares indeed! My God! Great birds that fought and tore.” Not one of the author’s best-known works. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850/137 "2005-05-19T19:43:21Z")
> [@](#): > > Quote: > Originally Posted by Baldwin > When an attempt was made to separate the two skeletons, they crumbled and fell into dust. > The Hunchback of Notre Dame? Right! And here’s a longer version of the other one (note: the caps are in the original): > [@](#): > > YOU CAN SHARE THE WORLD WITH ME. THEY CAN’T STOP YOU. STRIKE NOW – PICK UP A SHARP THING AND STAB, OR A HEAVY THING AND CRUSH. THAT’S ALL. THAT WILL MAKE YOU FREE. ANYONE CAN DO IT. > > Anyone. Someone. Anyone. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850/138 "2005-05-19T21:53:58Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > From a creepy hard-boiled novel made into a famous film noir: > _“The moon.”_ _Double Indemnity_ by James Cain. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850/139 "2005-05-19T22:05:37Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > A Canticle for Leibowitz? **Shodan** , you were correct on this one. ---
**Author:** ![Sarah\_Woodruff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sarah\_Woodruff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarah_Woodruff)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2005, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850/140 "2005-05-20T08:10:57Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > I don’t the story but is the author Hemingway? No, but I can certainly see why you’d think so. It was Norman Mailer - I think it was called _The Advance._ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creep-me-out-with-your-closing-line/303850.md?page=6)