43 Quotes About Gothic-horror

He began to laugh again, a croaking, rasping vile sound that made me want to stop my ears with my fingers.

As she became more honest with herself, her writing matured, so that one could catch glimpses of what would emerge from its chrysalis as a poet’s genius.

Amelia Stapleton had frozen herself in a kind artificial girlhood which apparently resonated with the ghost of Georgiana Truelove. In fact, I saw a dreadful symmetry between the two: both of them unable to grow up, both of them preserved like insects in amber at this point of trauma, where their lives ended-Miss Stapleton’s only metaphorically, but Georgiana Truelove’s with a most dreadful literality.

This was merely the malignant hand of coincidence.

Where I remembered a weedy, sniffling rat of a boy, here was a small, spare dry man with fierce bright eyes like those of a hunting hawk.

The world is a parable-the habitation of symbols-the phantoms of spiritual things immortal shown in material shape.

Man's fears lie beneath a veil of courage.