Ancestral Shadows Quotes

“To the modern politician and planner, men are the flies of a summer, oblivious of their past, reckless of their future.”
― Russell Kirk, Ancestral Shadows: An Anthology of Ghostly Tales

“Some months later, the Van Tassel children invited classmates home to play with their new doll. This was in the dead of winter. When the guests arrived, they did indeed find the Van Tassel children sliding down hill with a new doll. But that new doll was a human baby, the youngest Van Tassel, dead and frozen stiff. The baby had died the previous week, and had been stored in the woodshed for burial when the frost was out of the ground; the other children had asked if diey might have Susan for a doll, and Mrs. Van Tassel had not demurred.”
― Russell Kirk, Ancestral Shadows: An Anthology of Ghostly Tales