Julian Hawthorne, American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps
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"After breakfast I spent an hour cleaning my revolver and trying my skill at a target. Jane shook her head, probably thinking that bullets were vain against demonic powers. But Perdita was hugely delighted with the shining little instrument and wanted it for a plaything; women of all ages will play with death! ("Absolute Evil")"
Julian Hawthorne, American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps
"Probably our lives are full of symbols which only an unacknowledged sense perceives. Spiritual events assume a material guise, in accordance with some creative principle, but do not insist on recognition. ("Absolute Evil")"
Julian Hawthorne, American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps
"Nature seems to welcome defiance of conventions, and to say, with a smile, 'So, the truant has come back again!' ("Absolute Evil")"
Julian Hawthorne, American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps
"Children, brought up naturally and in freedom, not only have imagination, but live in a world of imagination more real to them than our reality. ("Absolute Evil")"
Julian Hawthorne, American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps
"What an incomparable creature is the sea! ("Absolute Evil")"
Julian Hawthorne, American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps
"Since childhood, I had always been affected by the changes of the moon, sometimes very much so. As the light of the satellite fell on my face my mind cleared, and I knew what was to be done. ("Absolute Evil")"
Julian Hawthorne, American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps
"...the natures of solitary people are apt to have more unmapped country in them than worldly folk imagine. They see and think and do things peculiar to themselves, and one may turn up buried treasure in them at any moment. ("Absolute Evil")"
Julian Hawthorne, American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps
"States of the atmosphere pass into us as water through the meshes of a sieve, and storms occur in us before they break upon the world without, creating restless sensations. ("Absolute Evil")"
Julian Hawthorne, American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps