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Apparitions: Ghosts of Old Edo: Ghosts of Old Edo

by Miyuki Miyabe

bookshelves: horror, anthology, japanese-literature, supernatural, japanese-horror, ghost-story, short-fiction-collection, haikasoru, currently-reading

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“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

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“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature

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“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

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“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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“Equations are the devil's sentences.”
― Stephen Colbert

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