The girl was bright and possessed a wry wit. Definitely not a prized combination in anyone under thirty.
“I was full of the same crazy feeling that makes me climb oak trees to the very top branches, stare up at the sky and let go with my hands for a few seconds knowing that if I fall I will die. When”
― Some Will Not Sleep: Selected Horrors
― Some Will Not Sleep: Selected Horrors
“As she draws level the flickering light strikes her. But under closer scrutiny she is not the young firefox that I presumed she was. With that posture, that chin held so high, those cold beautiful eyes, that tight tapering skirt and those feet mounted on pedestals with heels like blades, how could I have been so wrong? Her hair is not blonde, but white. The dead white of the pantomime wig. That haughty catwalk face is actually more like a skull too, with aged parchment stretched across it; a dry surface freshly painted with a palette more suited to the circus clown than the city girl.”
― Hasty for the Dark: Selected Horrors
― Hasty for the Dark: Selected Horrors
“Do not call up that which you cannot put down.”
― The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
― The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
“There are things beyond the veil of human understanding, strange, antediluvian monstrosities that stalk the shadows, preying on dark, lost minds, waiting at the rim of the Great Abyss to claim their own.”
― A Mountain Walked: Great Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
― A Mountain Walked: Great Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
“We drive because we forget, he decided. We forget pain, we forget fear, we forget the hot-cold paralysis of near misses, we forget consequences. We forget our vulnerability: the very fragility of our bodies. We forget about our wobbling heads packed with brain matter, mounted on a thin spinal column – the weakest link in the entire animal kingdom. And we forget how we are dependent upon those minuscule threads of nerve tissue that, once severed, remove all sensation from the legs, and introduce the wheezing apparatus that will stand sentinel at our white-sheeted beds.”
― Hasty for the Dark: Selected Horrors
― Hasty for the Dark: Selected Horrors
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