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“fear . . . I think that death from fear, or madness from fear, must sum up in a second of time the total of all the most awful sensations it is possible for a man to know.”
― Algernon Blackwood, THE EMPTY HOUSE AND OTHER GHOST STORIES

“Ordinary sounds remain ordinary only so long as one is not listening to them; under the influence of intense listening they become unusual, portentous, and therefore extraordinary.”
― Algernon Blackwood, The Empty House, and Other Ghost Stories

“But, after all, from all this there does result this one moral, which may be regarded as more especially addressed to us writing persons—and our readers. And that is ; that the world, the sum of things of which we are cognisant, is infinitely queer, that even in the rind or surface of it the strangest essences are lurking, that tremendous beauties, amazing oddities are everywhere present, wearing very often, to use the Wardrobe Master’s phrase, Disguise Cloaks of the most commonplace pattern.”
― Machen Arthur

“It was three o'clock; the hour when life's pulses beat lowest; when poor souls lying between life and death find it hardest to resist.”
― Algernon Blackwood, THE EMPTY HOUSE AND OTHER GHOST STORIES