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Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (1818) (The Creature):
"All men hate the wretched; how' then' must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detst and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. You purpose to kill me. How dare you sport thus with life? Do your duty towards me, and I will do mine towards you and the rest of mankind."
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Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (1818) (Victor Frankenstein):
"Oh! No mortal could support the horror of that countenance. A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch. I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then, but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived."
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The Giaour (1813) (Lord Byron):
"On Earth as vampire sent,
Thy corpse shall from its tomb be rent:
Then ghastly haunt thy native place,
and suck the blood of all thy race."
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The Girl Next Door (1989) (Jack Ketchum):
"Where it went was to the basement."
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The Haunting of Hill House (1959) (Shirley Jackson):
"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone."
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The Haunting of Hill House (1959) (Shirley Jackson):
"He had been looking for an honestly haunted house all his life. When he heard of Hill House he had been at first doubtful, then hopeful, then indefatigable; he was not the man to let go of Hill House once he had found it."
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The Haunting of Hill House (1959) (Shirley Jackson):
"No human eye can isolate the unhappy coincidence of line and place which suggests evil in the face of a house, and yet somehow a maniac juxtaposition, a badly turned angle, some chance meeting of roof and sky, turned Hill House into a place of despair, more frightening because the face of Hill House seemed awake, with a watchfulness from the blank windows and a touch of glee in the eyebrow of a cornice."
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The Haunting of Hill House (1959) (Shirley Jackson):
"Journeys end in lovers meeting."
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Heart of Darkness (1902) (Joseph Conrad):
"The Horror... the horror... the horror."
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Hellsing (Alucard):
"The bird of the Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame."
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Herbert West - Reanimator (1921) (H.P. Lovecraft):
"Indeed, the greatest problem was to get them fresh enough - West had had horrible experiences during his secret college researches with corpses of doubtful vintage."
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Herbert West--Reanimator (H. P. Lovecraft):
"They imply that I am either a madman or a murderer -- probably I am mad. But I might not be mad if those accursed tomb-legions had not been so silent."
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The Hound (1922) (H.P. Lovecraft):
"St. John is a mangled corpse; I alone know why, and such is my knowledge that I am about to blow out my brains for fear I shall be mangled the same way."
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In a letter to Frank Belknap Long, December 1927 (H. P. Lovecraft):
"In furnishing my Irish colleague with an account of my vivid and active career I did not think it necessary to mention trifles so tame as Satanism and neogonophagy -- nay, nor my voyage up the Oxus, nor my visit to Samarcand, nor how *and why* I slew the yellow-veiled priest at Lhasa -- that priest whose yellow silken veil stood out *too far* in front of where his face ought to be, and moved in a manner that *I did not like.*"
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In a letter to Wilfred Blanch Talman, October 31 1926 (H. P. Lovecraft):
"This primary attention to plot is probably a wise choice on your part, because to the weird writer plot is so much more difficult to achieve than atmosphere."
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In a letter to Wilfred Blanch Talman, October 31 1926 (H. P. Lovecraft):
"But in the end, atmosphere repays cultivation; because it is the final criterion of convincingness or unconvincingness in any tale whose major appeal is to the imagination."
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The Lake (1827) (Edgar Allan Poe):
"Death was in that poisonous wave,
And in its gulf a fitting grave
For him who thence could solace bring
To his lone imagining--
Whose solitary soul could make
An Eden of that dim lake."
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A letter from Simon Orne, in The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (H. P. Lovecraft):
"I say to you againe, doe not call up Any that you can not put downe; by the Which I meane, Any that can in Turne call up somewhat against you, whereby your Powerfullest Devices may not be of use. Ask of the Lesser, lest the Greater shall not wish to Answer, and shall commande more than you."
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The Masque of the Red Death (Edgar Allan Poe):
"And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."
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The Nameless City (1921) (H.P. Lovecraft):
"That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons death may die."
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The Neighbors (1910) (Theodosia Garrison):
"At first cock-crow
The ghosts must go
Back to their quiet graves below."
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One Need Not Be A Chamber To Be Haunted (1862) (Emily Dickinson):
"One need not be a chamber to be haunted,
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place."
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Profondo Argento (Dario Argento):
"Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revelation. Terror by the same standards is that of fearful anticipation."
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Quoting from the Necronomicon in The Dunwich Horror (H. P. Lovecraft):
"The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them, They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen."
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Quoting from the Necronomicon in The Dunwich Horror (H. P. Lovecraft):
"Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They shall break through again. He knows where They have trod earth's fields, and where They still tread them, and why no one can behold Them as They tread."
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