“ I saw her, in the fire, but now. I hear her in music, in the wind, in the dead stillness of the night," returned the haunted man. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 141
“ There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her name is the Coffin! ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ He does love prophesying a misfortune, does the average British ghost. Send him out to prognosticate trouble to somebody, and he is happy. ”
- Jerome K. Jerome- Copy
- 892
“ I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost. "I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. Is its pattern strange to you? ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ The absence of the soul is far more terrible in a living man than in a dead one. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ”
- Edgar Allan Poe- Copy
- 320
“ I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ For a moment he paused there, the wind blowing his long grey locks about his head, and twisting into grotesque and fantastic folds the nameless horror of the dead man's shroud. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ They worshipped, so they said, the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who came to the young world out of the sky. ”
- H.P. Lovecraft- Copy
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“ The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding-places. ”
- Mary Shelley- Copy
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“ I am the Ghost of Christmas Present," said the Spirit. "Look upon me! ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part. ”
- Tom Clancy- Copy
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“ Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural. ”
- Theophrastus- Copy
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“ The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be. ”
- Henry James- Copy
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“ When the locked door opens, and there comes in a young woman, deadly pale, and with long fair hair, who glides to the fire, and sits down in the chair we have left there, wringing her hands. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 2K
“ A valet, of stealthy step, thence conducted me, in silence, through many dark and intricate passages in my progress to the studio of his master. ”
- Edgar Allan Poe- Copy
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“ An evening wind uprose too, and the slighter branches cracked and rattled as they moved, in skeleton dances, to its moaning music. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ Lead on!" said Scrooge. "Lead on! The night is waning fast, and it is precious time to me, I know. Lead on, Spirit! ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. ”
- Bram Stoker- Copy
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