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At this point, a few words on this term 'horror' are perhaps called for. Some amateurs of this kind of literature engage in endless hairsplitting disputes, centered around this word and its close companion 'terror', as to which' stories may so be categorized and which may not, and whether or not descriptions such as weird or fantasy or macabre are preferable. The designation 'horror', with its connotations of revulsion, satisfies me no more than it does the purists but I believe that it is the only term which embraces all the stories in this collection and which succinctly suggests to the majority of readers what is in store for them. Horror then, in this instance, covers tales of the Supernatural and of physical terror, of ghosts and necromancy and of inhuman violence and all the dark corners and crevices of human belief and behavior that lie in between. ("An Age In Horror" - introduction) ↗


— Michel Parry


#genre-constraints #genre-fiction #horror #terror #age

As it recurred again and again, it set me thinking of what my architect's books say about the custom in early times to consecrate the choir as soon as it was built, and that the nave, being finished sometimes half a century later, often did not get any blessing at all: I wondered idly if that had been the case at St. Barnabe, and whether something not usually supposed to be at home in a Christian church, might have entered undetected, and taken possession of the west gallery. I had read of such things happening too, but not in works on architecture. ("In The Court Of The Dragon") ↗


— Robert W. Chambers


#possession #unconsecrated #architecture

The discovery that detonated Cleveland is one of Britain’s great contributions to awareness of child abuse. In 1986 and 1987 the Leeds paediatricians Dr Jane Wynne and Dr Christopher Hobbs reported in the Lancetthat they were seeing more children who were being buggered than battered. About 300 cases were corroborated. The children were young – two-thirds were pre-school children – and anal abuse was more common than vaginal penetration. They also noted that ‘boys and girls seem to be at similar risk’. Almost half of the children who suffered anal abuse also showed a sign written up in the forensic textbooks as ‘anal dilation’, an anus opening when it was supposed to stay shut; opening and expecting entry. What the paediatricians were observing was not an acute sign, the effect of a single intrusion – a spasm or seizure – but a sign that was telling a story about everyday life; the anatomy of adaption. Anal dilation seemed to describe the architecture of abuse: it allowed the body to receive an incoming object, regularly. ↗


— Beatrix Campbell


#abusers #britain #child-abuse #cleveland #coercion

We must take the money out of politics, and end psychopathic, self-destructive government and corporate madness. ↗


— Bryant McGill


#improvement #love #peace #understanding #unity

You'll not be small if you'll say sorry. ↗


— Shivam Tadvi


#sorry #attitude

The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind." (Marco) ↗


— Iain Pears


#corruption #devil #religion #beauty

I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. ↗


— H.P. Lovecraft


#lovecraft #men

Love for the beauty of the soul. I shall love you always. When the flower of life has gone, ever I shall find you. When all is lost and winter comes, I shall be your spring time. And memory fades and wilts then, I shall always find you.... I shall always find you.... ↗


— Laurel A. Rockefeller


#elendir #find #flower #grief #hope

They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy tale was green with corruption and evil. ↗


— Stephen King


#corruption #evil #fairytale #horror #beauty

You felt a deep sorrow, the kind of melancholy you feel when you're in a beautiful place and the sun is going down ↗


— Thrity Umrigar


#sad #sorrow #beauty






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