The Diary of Mr. Poynter Quotes

“What he had been touching rose to meet him. It was in the attitude of one that had crept along the floor on its belly, and it was, so far as could be collected, a human figure. But of the face which was now rising to within a few inches of his own no feature was discernible, only hair.”
― M.R. James, The Diary of Mr. Poynter: A Ghost Story for Christmas