To friends above, from friends below, the indignant ghost is riven- From Hell unto a high estate far up within the Heaven- From frief and groan, to a golden throne, beside the King of Heaven. Excerpt from Lenore, by Edgar Allen Poe.
Out of what crypt they crawl, I cannot tell, But every night I see the rubbery things, Black, horned, and slender, with membranous wings, And tails that bear the bifid barb of hell. They come in legions on the north wind's swell With obscene clutch that titillates and stings, Snatching me off on monstrous voyagings To grey worlds hidden deep in nightmare's well.
(From H.P. Lovecraft’s Night Gaunts) The infamous scene from the 1922 vampire movie Nosferatu: And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts...
And I looked and behold, a pale horse
And his name that sat on him was Death
And Hell followed with him. Revelation 6:6,8
When there's no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth." Dawn of the Dead (1978) (George A. Romero) A passage from The Giaour (1813) by Lord Byron: But first, on earth as vampire sent, There from thy daughter, sister, wife,
A ghost, that loved a lady fair Ever in the starry night Of midnight at her pillow stood; And; with a sweetness skies above The luring words of human love, Her soul the phantom wooed.
Sweet and sweet is their poisoned note, The little snakes of silver throat, In mossy skulls that nest and lie, Ever singing die, oh! die.”
From Thomas Lovell Beddoes’s The Phantom-Wooer |
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Favorite short fiction: Midnight Meat Train by Clive Barker Twittering at the Circus of the Dead by Joe Hill Some children wander by mistake by John Connolly Deep Dark Green by John Connolly The Last Rung of the ladder by Stephen King The Mother and the Dead Child by Hans Anderson The Boogeyman by Stephen King Children of the Corn by Stephen King The Cats of Ulthar by H.P. Lovecraft The Coffin by Ray Bradbury Twentieth Century Ghost by Joe Hill The Landlady by Roald Dahl The Wind Cries Mary by Brian Keene The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allen Poe When the Dark Times Come by Gary McMahon How it happened by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce Abraham's Boys by Joe Hill Ravenswing by Lucy Suitor Holt The Alchemist by H.P. Lovecraft Heartache by Anton Chekhov I Like Blondes by Robert Bloch The Rocking-Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence Where the buffalo roam by Robert Bloch Books:
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