We ask only to be reassured
About the noises in the cellar
And the window that should not have been open

T.S. Eliot

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Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve always enjoyed feeling afraid. I think it is the most delicious feeling there is

Domingos Monteiro

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Even the most impassioned devotee of the ghost story would admit that the taste for it is slightly abnormal, a survival, perhaps, from adolescence, a disease of deficiency suffered by those whose lives and imaginations do not react satisfactorily to normal experience and require an extra thrill

L.P. Hartley

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Terror made me cruel . . .

Emily Brontë

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Darnell had received what is called a sound commercial education, and would therefore have found very great difficulty in putting into articulate speech any thought that was worth thinking;

Arthur Machen

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A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life, they must shift their emphasis towards something to which they can be true; namely, certain wistful or restless moods of the human spirit, wherein it seeks to weave gossamer ladders of escape from the galling tyranny of time, space, and natural law.

H.P. Lovecraft

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But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than is ordinarily imagined.

Charles Nodier

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Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.

Guy de Maupassant

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Let us depart instead for the fields of Dreams and wander those blue, romantic hills where stands the abandoned tower of the Supernatural, where cool mosses clothe the ruins of Idealism. Let us, in short, indulge in a little fantasy!

Eça de Queirós

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Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called.

Remy de Gourmont

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