“Something was creeping and creeping and waiting to be seen and felt and heard.”

“First bubble baths. Now Disney parks. You're shattering every creep vampire myth I've ever heard.”

“It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.”

“If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it.”

“We heard her come halfway up the stairs, where she must have seen the bedroom light on. Again, the normal parent reaction would have been to say something like, "You had better come out this moment or I am releasing the tiger!" But Debbie was not a normal parent, so we heard her gigle and creep away, saying, "Shhh! Rachel! Come with Mommy! Stuart is busy!”

“Nina felt an inordinate pleasure, a pleasure that seemed to creep up on her the way the mud oozed through her barefoot toes.”