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Winter Ghosts: Classic Ghost Stories for Christmas (Black Heath Gothic, Sensation and Supernatural)
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Musgrave and Lawley were alone with the dead body of their friend, whose masquerading dress had become his shroud.
The sins worthy of death or vile affliction, according to Victorian ghost stories, are, in order of severity from least to worst: stealing money, betraying a lover, murder, and, most assured of death of all, pretending to be a ghost to scare your friends.
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“Colon in particular had great difficulty with the idea that you went on investigating after someone had confessed. It outraged his training and experience. You got a confession and there it ended. You didn’t go around disbelieving people. You disbelieved people only when they said they were innocent. Only guilty people were trustworthy. Anything”
― Feet of Clay
― Feet of Clay
“There are no beautiful clocks. Everything to do with time is hideous.”
― Cold Hand in Mine
― Cold Hand in Mine
“And one thing we know is real: horror. It is so real, in fact, that we cannot be sure it could not exist without us. Yes, it needs our imaginations and our consciousness, but it does not ask or require our consent to use them. Indeed, horror operates with complete autonomy. Generating ontological havoc, it is mephitic foam upon which our lives merely float. And, all said, we must face up to it: horror is more real than we are.”
― Songs of a Dead Dreamer
― Songs of a Dead Dreamer
“And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be living in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street of them merely got you invited to the very best social occasions.”
― Feet of Clay
― Feet of Clay
“They say there’s nothing inside but emptiness,’ Maureen told me later. I made no comment, but filled in by kissing her hair or something of the kind. Maureen had at that time rather droopy hair, possibly owing to lack of vitamins during the war, which she kept off her brow with a big tortoiseshell slide. Her brow was really beautiful, and so were her eyes. They had that gentle look of being unequal to life, which, as I later realised, always attracts me in a woman.”
― Cold Hand in Mine
― Cold Hand in Mine
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