Dracula
Bram Stoker
“How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.”
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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
"Unfeeling, heartless creator! You had endowed me with perceptions and passions, and then cast me abroad, an object for the scorn and horror of mankind."
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving
"There was a contagion in the very air that blew from that haunted region; it breathed forth an atmosphere of dreams and fancies infecting all the land."
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The Black Cat
Edgar Allan Poe
"Yet, mad am I not -- and very surely do I not dream. But tomorrow I die, and today I would burthen my soul."
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The Premature Burial
Edgar Allan Poe
"To be buried while alive is, beyond question, the most terrific of these extremes which has ever fallen to the lot of mere mortality."
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The Fall of the House of Usher
Edgar Allan Poe
"Having deposited our mournful burden upon tressels within this region of horror, we partially turned aside the yet unscrewed lid of the coffin, and looked upon the face of the tenant."
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The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe
"And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted -- never more?"
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The Body-Snatcher
Robert Louis Stevenson
"A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student."
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The Canterville Ghost
Oscar Wilde
"When Mr. Hiram B. Otis, the American Minister, bought Canterville Chase, every one told him he was doing a very foolish thing, as there was no doubt at all that the place was haunted."
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
"I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two."
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Uncle Silas
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
"I could hardly believe my eyes -- such white hair -- such a white face -- such mad eyes -- such a death-like smile."
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The Damned Thing
Ambrose Bierce
"By extending an arm any one of them could have touched the eighth man, who lay on the table, face upward, partly covered by a sheet, his arms at his sides. He was dead."
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The Death of Halpin Frayser
Ambrose Bierce
"As he pressed forward he became conscious that his way was haunted by invisible existences whom he could not definitely figure to his mind."
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Ambrose Bierce
"Then all at once, with terrible suddenness, the light about him shot upward with the noise of a loud plash; a frightful roaring was in his ears, and all was cold and dark."
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Moxon's Master
Ambrose Bierce
"His face was ghastly white, and his eyes glittered like diamonds. Of his antagonist I had only a back view, but that was sufficient; I should not have cared to see his face."
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The Withered Arm
Thomas Hardy
"A short time ago this would have given no concern to a woman of her common-sense. But she had a haunting reason to be superstitious now..."
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The Mark of the Beast
Rudyard Kipling
"People write and talk lightly of blood running cold and hair standing up and things of that kind. Both sensations are too horrible to be trifled with."
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The Other Wing
Algernon Blackwood
"And it was usually while he lay waiting for sleep, tired both of the curtain and the coal games, on the point, indeed, of saying, 'I'll go to sleep now,' that the puzzling thing took place."
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The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
"My face must have shown him I believed him utterly; yet my hands -- but it was for pure tenderness -- shook him as if to ask him why, if it was all for nothing, he had condemmed me to months of torment."
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The Return
Walter De la Mare
"With that anxious irresolution which illness so often brings in its train he had hesitated for a few minutes before actually entering the graveyard."
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The Eyes
Edith Wharton
"There they hung in the darkness, their swollen lids dropped across the little watery bulbs rolling loose in the orbits, and the puff of flesh making a muddy shadow underneath..."
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The Four-Fifteen Express
Amelia Edwards
"They were there one moment -- palpably there, talking, with the gaslight full upon their faces; and the next moment they were gone."
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The White People
Arthur Machen
"She knew how to do all the awful things, how to destroy young men, and how to put a curse on people, and other things that I could not understand."
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The Last Heir of Castle Connor
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
"As M'Donough uttered these words, I felt that sudden sinking of the heart which accompanies the immediate anticipation of something dreaded and dreadful."
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