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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"They all float down here. They all float." 

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,
Thy corpse shall from its tomb be rent:
Then ghastly haunt thy native place,
And suck the blood of all thy race;

There from thy daughter, sister, wife,
At midnight drain the stream of life;
Yet loathe the banquet which perforce
Must feed thy livid living corse:
Thy victims ere they yet expire
Shall know the demon for their sire,
As cursing thee, thou cursing them,
Thy flowers are withered on the stem.

 

"But thoughts are things, my friend. When you imagine a thing you make a thing."         

From Arthur Conan Doyle's 1900 short story Playing with Fire.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

"I have lost my mind." - Daniel Johnstone

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

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Feel free to chat with me about these books or movies at Joemynhardt@yahoo.com 

 

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