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Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of.

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It’s not nice to think of children growing up like mushrooms, in the dark.

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I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and wo...more

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Everything is worse...if you think something is looking at you.

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Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any way hampered by th...more

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Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we canno...more

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No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, but some, to dream.

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No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. ...more

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I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.

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When they were silent for a moment the quiet weight of the house pressed down from all around them.

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Not one of us, even after last night, can say the word "ghost" without a littleinvoluntary smile. No, the menace of the supernatural is that it attack...more

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...Don't be surprised, and I say it darkly, do not be surprised if you lose your Luke in this cause; perhaps Mrs. Dudley has not yet had her own mid m...more

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No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. ...more

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It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.

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Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of.