Late-victorian-gothic-tales Quote by Grant Allen

“He knelt among the shadows and felt his isolation bitterly. They were savages it was true; but they were human.”

— William Golding

“We were nothing but a bunch of ravenous ghosts. The barely living dead.”

— Masaji Ishikawa

“I had slept nothing all night, making ghosts for myself, filling my mind with them and giving myself pale frights. All the ghosts had…

— Richard Llewellyn

“It's not the fault of ghosts that we are so frightened of them.”

— John Lanchester

“The four of them stared at me. Half an hour ago we were strangers and I was beating the crap out of them; now…

— Jonathan Maberry

“One strange feeling, which I remember clearly, was a powerful link with the slain, particularly those that had fallen within the past hour or…

— William Manchester

“They were a sorry-looking bunch. Their clothes were in tatters. Their flesh was ripped. They were filthy beyond filth. For once, they looked like…

— Maggie LaCroix

“Together, they at once dodged those parts of themselves and magnified them, making for enigmatic harmony and anarchy.”

— Deirdre Riordan Hall

“How we gentle our losses into paler ghosts.”

— Peter Heller

“torn between the need to fight and the terror of becoming the evil people had to fight.”

— Kit Rocha

“...the souls of none of them were dead, but only sleeping; now and then they would waken, and these were cruel times.”

— Upton Sinclair

“Silently we went round and round, And through each hollow mind The memory of dreadful things Rushed like a dreadful wind, And horror stalked…

— Oscar Wilde