Status Updates From The Eerie Book

"The Masque of Klosterheim was enabled to replace himself in his patrimonial rights, and at the same time to liberate from a growing oppression his own compatriots and subjects."

What a beautiful ending

"The last prayer was prayed, the last handful of earth was heaped upon the grave. They arose, and the stranger was no longer there, but where she had knelt a silver spring burst from the sward, that gently flowed and flowed till it surrounded the tomb."

Ugh, might be my favourite excerpt so far (which is crazy bc my beloved Shelley and Poe have featured here)

"Just then the old clock on the mantelpiece struck the midnight hour. The spirit of Marshal Blücher had quietly passed away."

What sights of horror might present themselves if it were entered! Satan is the ultimus hæres of all such unclaimed property!

When they communicated the circumstances of the confession to Powleska, she said, “I was told it last night.”

But through the long years that have elapsed since that memorable summer's day, I have never for a moment wavered in my belief that, in the mysterious horseman, I had a special interference of Providence, by which means I was delivered from a position of extreme danger.

"In a moment she knew it was herself and that she was dead. Struggling to make some sound, she gave a shriek, fell face downwards on the floor, and woke up."

"They assured me that, previous to that fatal expedition into the forest, he had been a hale, hearty man, totally exempt from superstitious fancies of any sort; and, in short, wholly devoted to advancing his worldly prosperity and getting money."

Mood

"He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance."

When the noises could be endured no longer, the room was stoutly walled up, and inside sit Earl Beardie and his partner playing cards till the crack of doom.

Against the new masonry I re - erected the old rampart of bones. For the half of a century no mortal has disturbed them. In pace requiescat!

“Oh no,” I rejoined; “oh no; never mind facts if they don't fit into our theories.”

"Even until to - day is Tregeagle labouring at his task. In calms his wailing is heard; and those sounds which some call the “soughing of the wind,” are known to be the moanings of Tregeagle; while the earning storms are predicated by the fearful roarings of this condemned mortal."

“Hear me not when I pray against Thy will, which is at all times the best! Hear me not! hear me not!” And she let her head sink down on her bosom.
And Death went away with her child into the unknown land.

"On — on went the closing sides: down — down came the ponderous roof — the fatal machinery no longer moving noiselessly, but collapsing with a hideous crash — yet not so loud as to stifle the agonising screams and shrieks that echoed from the inmate of the iron coffin!"

"And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood - bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion"

Nog 1 lang verhaal en dan is het eindelijk over

Dit boek is echt nie goed

Heb ik 60 pagina’s geskipt omdat die uit Frankenstein komen en ik dat dus gewoon dubbel zou lezen wanneer ik ooit ergens in mijn leven Frankenstein ga lezen? Yup.