Dan

“Some think highly of The Terror, but it is in fact quite bad. The American magazine The Century printed a shortened version of the short novel—reduced to a mere quarter of its size—which is a significant improvement on the original; and it would be rather better for Machen’s reputation if this version were better known.”
― S.T. Joshi, The Weird Tale: Arthur Machen/Lord Dunsany/Algernon Blackwood/M. R. James/Ambrose Bierce/H. P. Lovecraft

“When one knows, as I do, that time and space are identical and that they are both deceptive because they are merely imperfect manifestations of a higher reality, one no longer seeks in the visible world for an explanation of the mystery and terror of being.”
― Henry Bartholomew, Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird

“We’re not supposed to come back when we’re dead. There’s no science we’ve figured out to explain it.”
― John Scalzi, The Dispatcher

“One of my senses was saluted, nay, more than that, hailed, with imperiousness, and that was, strangely enough, my sense of smell, but in a hitherto unknown fashion.”
― Henry Bartholomew, Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird