The veil between the two worlds became as thin as a spider's web and what had been quiet whisperings became a roar as the voices of the dead cried out from the other side. 

 The board's planchette slid around from letter to letter in what seemed like an annoyed fashion from "f" to "u" towards the "c" and that was when they realized the spirit they were dealing with was a real jerk. 

 Ed's life had changed little since the days he hung out in chat rooms when the internet was new, alone. 

We're still just so many apes beating our (hairless) chests and hording our (electronic) bananas. 

She was of two minds: build up/tear down. 

 One world is no longer enough for all of us. 

 Horror movies had lost their edge since ultraviolence was now everywhere. 

 Something slithered past my leg as we splashed around in the mudhole. 

The final sentence will reveal all. 

 "I don't watch horror movies," she insisted, "I get my daily dose of fear from the news." 

He bought a van, adopted a dog, burned the house down, and headed out laughing all the way. 

 The end is nearer than first hinted at (the corners prevent us from seeing the vista). 

 A lone cry cry cry echoed through the wilderness. 

Adele realized she had finally reached the age of no longer caring about keeping up with the latest pop culture trends or even appearances, for that matter. 

For Bart, the bar life suddenly ceased to beguile.

 He liked his neighbors, a small coven of witches, but couldn't stand the smells, especially the eye of newt, emanating from their apartment as they prepared their spells in a large black cauldron. 

 The government isn't spying on you but advertisers are (by the way, I see you're out of flour, would you like me to add it to your cart?) 

The misfits would have their revenge. 

Simon learned from his failures but stiil couldn't succeed. 

The banging in the walls and eerie laughter started up soon after they threw out the cache of dusty and moldering children's toys they'd discovered under the old floorboards.

 The codebreaker never did manage to decipher his own heart. 

 As David quickly walked past the graveyard on his way back from school he couldn't shake the feeling that what he had initially mistaken for a shadow seemed to be something else, something malevolent and able to move of its own accord. 

 The whispering from deeper in the woods grew louder but Theresa's companions didn't even seem to notice. 

 She overheard several teens earnestly discussing Kim Kardashian's new hair color and shuddered involuntarily. 

 "Life leaves you with nothing but bad joints and faulty memories," Ike told me as I helped him up the front steps. 

 Let sleeping dogs lie unless under oath in a court of law. 

You can read the room, the signs, the signals, and the books, but still have no comprehension. 

 The inflatable ghosts began to pop up on the front lawns like so many toadstools beating the trees that had yet to produce fall foliage by several weeks. 

 Hal hated being wrong, but more often than not, was. 

 The kids all had handguns but no lunch money.