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by (shelved 11 times as arcane)
avg rating 3.90 — 15,754 ratings — published

by (shelved 10 times as arcane)
avg rating 4.19 — 311,481 ratings — published 2013

by (shelved 10 times as arcane)
avg rating 4.07 — 9,852 ratings — published 2010

by (shelved 9 times as arcane)
avg rating 4.07 — 11,381 ratings — published 2007

by (shelved 9 times as arcane)
avg rating 4.12 — 11,210 ratings — published 2008

by (shelved 9 times as arcane)
avg rating 4.02 — 9,674 ratings — published 2008

by (shelved 8 times as arcane)
avg rating 4.19 — 176,868 ratings — published 2019

by (shelved 8 times as arcane)
avg rating 4.13 — 8,508 ratings — published 2011

by (shelved 8 times as arcane)
avg rating 4.08 — 10,146 ratings — published 2009

by (shelved 8 times as arcane)
avg rating 4.13 — 11,036 ratings — published 2008

by (shelved 7 times as arcane)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,497 ratings — published 2025

by (shelved 7 times as arcane)
avg rating 3.91 — 20,671 ratings — published 2009

by (shelved 7 times as arcane)
avg rating 4.10 — 6,817 ratings — published 2019

by (shelved 7 times as arcane)
avg rating 3.73 — 14,021 ratings — published 2019

by (shelved 7 times as arcane)
avg rating 4.45 — 80,985 ratings — published 2019

by (shelved 7 times as arcane)
avg rating 4.10 — 9,601 ratings — published 2011

by (shelved 7 times as arcane)
avg rating 4.15 — 7,817 ratings — published 2010

by (shelved 7 times as arcane)
avg rating 4.11 — 11,224 ratings — published 2009

by (shelved 6 times as arcane)
avg rating 3.79 — 28,131 ratings — published 2022

by (shelved 6 times as arcane)
avg rating 3.86 — 9,824 ratings — published 2021

by (shelved 6 times as arcane)
avg rating 4.07 — 102,319 ratings — published 2017

by (shelved 6 times as arcane)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,806 ratings — published 2023

by (shelved 6 times as arcane)
avg rating 3.76 — 23,186 ratings — published 2020

by (shelved 6 times as arcane)
avg rating 4.08 — 444,220 ratings — published 2023

by (shelved 6 times as arcane)
avg rating 4.27 — 701,756 ratings — published 2022

by (shelved 6 times as arcane)
avg rating 4.11 — 34,253 ratings — published 2021

by (shelved 6 times as arcane)
avg rating 4.09 — 9,090 ratings — published 2010

by (shelved 5 times as arcane)
avg rating 4.34 — 193,100 ratings — published 2023

by (shelved 5 times as arcane)
avg rating 4.18 — 238,678 ratings — published 2023

by (shelved 5 times as arcane)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,123 ratings — published 2023

by (shelved 5 times as arcane)
avg rating 3.74 — 61,324 ratings — published 2021

by (shelved 5 times as arcane)
avg rating 4.17 — 448,457 ratings — published 2018

by (shelved 5 times as arcane)
avg rating 3.85 — 319,477 ratings — published 2019

by (shelved 5 times as arcane)
avg rating 4.49 — 928,542 ratings — published 2006

by (shelved 5 times as arcane)
avg rating 4.14 — 12,624 ratings — published 2020

by (shelved 5 times as arcane)
avg rating 4.17 — 14,211 ratings — published 2020

by (shelved 5 times as arcane)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,229 ratings — published 2020

by (shelved 5 times as arcane)
avg rating 4.26 — 8,388 ratings — published 2021

by (shelved 5 times as arcane)
avg rating 4.35 — 27,527 ratings — published 2018

by (shelved 5 times as arcane)
avg rating 4.21 — 40,401 ratings — published 2018

by (shelved 5 times as arcane)
avg rating 4.16 — 8,755 ratings — published 2021

by (shelved 5 times as arcane)
avg rating 4.05 — 12,953 ratings — published 2020

by (shelved 5 times as arcane)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,281 ratings — published 2011

by (shelved 4 times as arcane)
avg rating 3.68 — 17,301 ratings — published 2022

by (shelved 4 times as arcane)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,675 ratings — published 2022

by (shelved 4 times as arcane)
avg rating 4.36 — 95,617 ratings — published 2023

by (shelved 4 times as arcane)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,925 ratings — published 2022

by (shelved 4 times as arcane)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,633 ratings — published 2022

“Quinn seemed to have become one of a jaded philosophical society, a group of arcane deviates. Their raison d'etre was a kind of mystical masochism, forcing initiates toward feats of occult daredevilry - "glimpsing the inferno with eyes of ice", to take from the notebook a phrase that was repeated often and seemed a sort of chant of power. As I suspected, hallucinogenic drugs were used by the sect, and there was no doubt that they believed themselves communing with strange metaphysical venues. Their chief aim, in true mystical fashion, was to transcend common reality in the search for higher states of being, but their stratagem was highly unorthodox, a strange detour along the usual path toward positive illumination. Instead, they maintained a kind of blasphemous fatalism, a doomed determinism which brought them face to face with realms of obscure horror. Perhaps it was this very obscurity that allowed them the excitement of their central purpose, which seemed to be a precarious flirting with personal apocalypse, the striving for horrific dominion over horror itself.
("The Dreaming In Nortown")”
― The Nightmare Factory
("The Dreaming In Nortown")”
― The Nightmare Factory

“Fear has always been a very important whistleblower. Our emotion and our history can provoke fear that may arrest us at any time or at any place. Above and beyond, fear might be contagious and its scent, sometimes sensual, sometimes mystical or animal, can exude the musty and arcane smell of destiny. ("One could still feel the smell of fear" )”
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