The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.

Garth Nix

Tag: fear fantasy fortune omen

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All primitive people are frightened of owls,' said Harley. 'The villagers here are scared to death of the gufo. Birds of ill omen. If they see one, they think they'll die. But they never do. See one, I mean, of course,' he added with a laugh.

Francis Brett Young

Tag: fear death owl omen

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It was dark now, and broodingly sluggish. Like something supine waiting to spring, with just the tip of its tail twitching. Leaves stood still on the trees. An evil green star glinted in the black sky like a hostile eye, like an evil spying eye.

("For The Rest Of Her Life")

Cornell Woolrich

Tag: evil star dark night threat omen ominous

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Here the first of the things that happened, happened. The first of the things important enough to notice and to remember afterward, among a great many trifling but kindred ones that were not. Some so slight they were not more than gloating, zestful glints of eye or curt hurtful gestures. (Once he accidentally poured a spurt of scalding tea on the back of a waitress' wrist, by not waiting long enough for the waitress to withdraw her hand in setting the cup down, and by turning his head momentarily the other way. The waitress yelped, and he apologized, but he showed his teeth as he did so, and you don't show your teeth in remorse).

Cornell Woolrich

Tag: remorse apology omen sadist

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All of us had problems, it seemed, whose sources were untraceable, crossing over one another like the trajectories of countless raindrops in a storm, blending to create a fog of delusion and counter-delusion. Powerful forces and connections were undoubtedly at play, yet they seemed to have no faces and no names, and it was anybody's guess what we - a crowd of deluded no-talents - could have possibly done to offend them. We had been caught up in a season of hideous magic from which nothing could offer us deliverance.

("Gas Station Carnivals")

Thomas Ligotti

Tag: horror magic artists doom problems magick omen

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Pandora's Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden.

Selena Kitt

Tag: fear disillusionment lost fate religion paradise doom destiny erotic greek-mythology regret regrets eden fates erotica predestination omen doomed cursed meant-to-be selena-kitt

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