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That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.
H. P.(Howard Phillips) Lovecraft • The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (72 Novellas and Short Stories With Active Table of Contents)
It was, indeed, an exquisite symbol beneath which men long ago veiled their knowledge of the most awful, most secret forces which lie at the heart of all things; forces before which the souls of men must wither and die and blacken, as their bodies blacken under the electric current. Such forces cannot be named, cannot be spoken, cannot be imagined
... See moreArthur Machen • The Great God Pan
There have been things seen and done here which leave strange influences behind! They don’t touch you, doubtless, who come of another race. But they touch me, often, in the whisper of the leaves and the odour of the mouldy soil and the blank eyes of the old statues. I can’t bear to look the statues in the face. I seem to see other strange eyes in t
... See moreSusie Boyt • The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories
"Alan, in a locked room at the top of this house, a room to which nobody but myself has access, a dead man is seated at a table. He has been dead ten hours now.
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
It was nightmare itself, and to see it was to die. But it made men dream, and so they knew enough to keep away.
H. P.(Howard Phillips) Lovecraft • The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (72 Novellas and Short Stories With Active Table of Contents)
Even so, step by step the daylight decreases, and the cicerone's droning voice grows hollower as the traveler descends into the Catacombs. The comparison holds good! Who shall say which is more ghastly, the sight of the bleached skulls or of dried-up human hearts?
Honoré de Balzac • Father Goriot
