I could tell straight away that my seeds had been cast on the stoniest of grounds.

the ingredients put me more in mind of gunpowder than any medicine,

L. N. FOWLER

It is fascinating to speculate, is it not, on how the word generally gets about.

The ghouls which haunt our childhood are not easily shaken off.

the Berry Man can scatter himself into a hundred disparate parts and a prying eye would see nothing but the same leaves and twigs as lie on any woodland floor. But once the prying eye has passed on the Berry Man draws himself back in. The scraps of bark slowly shift along the ground and are reintroduced to each other; the chill wind shuffles him

A child is expert at frightening himself,

a tale is remotely worth telling then one might tell it a dozen times.

even the most patronizing, puffed-up doctors do not escape the earth’s deadly pull.