HAUNTING MUSIC HORROR: ‘Dead Singer’ by Edgar Daniel Kramer
He is gone
Like the ghost of the dew on the mountain,
Like the dawn
That gleamed a red flame on the fountain.
–Edgar Daniel Kramer (Dead Singer)
Tag: horrific
Best Halloween Horror–Episode 9: Robert Frost, Robert E. Howard, Christina Rossetti, & Many More
“Men fled before the flying twain or shrank with bated breath,
And they saw on the face of Adam Brand the seal set there by death.
He reeled on buckling legs that failed, yet on and on he fled;
So through the shuddering market-place, the dying fled the dead.”–Robert E. Howard (Dead Man’s Hate)
Witch Horror: Robert Bloch’s “Catnip”
Has the cat got your tongue?–Robert Bloch (Catnip)
Haunting Prophetic Tale: Robert E. Howard’s “Lines Written in the Realization That I Must Die”
“Twilight gathers and none can save me.
Well and well, for I would not stay:
Let me speak through the stone you grave me:
He never could say what he wished to say.”–Robert E. Howard (Lines Written in the Realization That I Must Die) Weird Tales August 1938
Jack the Ripper Science Fiction Horror: Robert Bloch’s “A Most Unusual Murder”
“My name would mean nothing to you. As for the shop, let us say that it exists spatially and temporally as I do—when and where necessary for my purposes.”—Robert Bloch (A Most Unusual Murder)
Jack the Ripper Science Fiction Horror: Robert Bloch’s “A Toy For Juliette”
“Juliette entered her bedroom, smiling, and a thousand Juliettes smiled back at her.”–Robert Bloch (A Toy For Juliette)
Cthulhu Mythos Vampire Horror: Stephen King’s “Jerusalem’s Lot”
“And the Latin was replaced by an older tongue, ancient when Egypt was young and the Pyramids built, ancient when this Earth still hung in an unformed, boiling firmament of empty gas: “Gyyagin vardar Yogsoggoth! Verminis! Gyyagin! Gyyagin! Gyyagin!”–Stephen King (Jerusalem’s Lot)
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