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#halloween #horrorstory #horrorstories #booktube #books #edgarallanpoe #halloween2023 #thecaskofmontillado #sequel ‘Sobered on the instant–the padlock had clicked when Montresor passed the chain about my waist and thus fastened me to the wall–I stood upright in the little dungeon, the blood running cold in my veins.’ –Walter Scott Story (The Cask of Amontillado-THE SEQUEL) https://youtube.com/@dwellerofthedark?sub_confirmation=1 https://youtube.com/shorts/gaZAcayE96s?feature=share https://youtu.be/3UjTY8cLLPc […]

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#halloween #booktube #goblin #fairies #creature #algernonblackwood #horrorstories #halloween2023 ‘All names thus have their meaning and are usually pretty recently acquired, while the majority are self-explanatory and suggest human and pioneer relations. Skeleton Lake, therefore, was a name full of suggestion, and though none of us knew the origin or the story of its birth, we […]

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#halloween #lighthouse #hauntedoak #fairy #horrorstory #horrorstories #seahorror #robertbloch #edgarallanpoe #witchcraft #light-house ‘A dead calm all day. Towards evening, the sea looked very much like glass. A few sea-weeds came in sight; but besides them absolutely nothing all day — not even the slightest speck of cloud. . . . . . . . Occupied myself […]

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Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer
Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.
“Wretch,” I cried, “thy God hath lent thee—by these angels he hath sent thee
Respite—respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore;
Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!”
Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”–Edgar Allan Poe (The Raven)

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‘We lay, my love and I

Beneath the weeping willow

But now alone I lie

And weep beside the tree

Singing “Oh willow waly”

By the tree that weeps with me

Singing “Oh willow waly”

Till my lover returns to me

We lay, my love and I

Beneath the weeping willow

But now alone I lie

Oh willow I die

Oh willow I die…’

—George Auric & Paul Dehn (O Willow Waly)