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It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.

At night I locked my bedroom door, because [my father] could not sleep and would insist on talking t...

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Jung ChangWild Swans: Three Daughters of China

In the daylight we knowwhat’s gone is gone,but at night it’s different.Nothing gets finished,not dyi...

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Margaret AtwoodMorning in the Burned House

from under the ground, from under the waters,they clutch at us, they clutch at us,we won’t let go.

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Margaret AtwoodMorning in the Burned House

So why do I write, torturing myself to put it down? Because in spite of myself I've learned some thi...

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I'd still thought that everything I thought about that night-the shame, the fear-would fade in time....

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For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his...

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... the logic of supernatural horror [is] a logic founded on fear, a logic whose sole principle stat...

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The worst fear of the race yes, the world suddenly transformed into a senseless nightmare, horrible ...

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Thomas LigottiGrimscribe: His Lives and Works

Life is a nightmare that leaves its mark upon you in order to prove that it is, in fact, real.

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Thomas LigottiSongs of a Dead Dreamer

Pausing on the threshold, he looked in, conscious not so much of the few familiar sticks of furnitur...

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Walter de la MareGreat Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

The splendor of that moment, its transcendent glory and aliveness, haunted him. He could thrust it a...

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Hot, bright heat filled him like some ecstatic poison, and Hartan's pony shied in terror as a wordle...

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It was like waking from a nightmare to a worse nightmare.

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Donna TarttThe Secret History

And in the night you realize, when you wake out of a dream, overcome and captivated by the enchantme...

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Erich Maria RemarqueAll Quiet on the Western Front

But my gloom did not lessen. I knew that I'd had a bad dream, and I stood in the dark trying to reco...

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Isaac Bashevis SingerAmerican Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now

All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.