WITCHCRAFT SPELLS: ‘Ornaments in Jade–The Ceremony’ by Arthur Machen
From her childhood, from those early and misty days which began to seem unreal, she recollected the grey stone in the wood.–Arthur Machen (The Ceremony)
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HORROR MAYHEM: ‘To Be read At Dusk’ by Charles Dickens
‘No. The face of a dark, remarkable-looking man, in black, with black hair and a grey moustache – a handsome man except for a reserved and secret air. Not a face she ever saw, or at all like a face she ever saw. Doing nothing in the dream but looking at her fixedly, out of darkness.’–CHARLES DICKENS (To Be Read At Dusk)
WITCHCRAFT SPELLS: ‘Ornaments in Jade–Witchcraft’ by Arthur Machen
“I be as much ashamed as you be, I think,” said Mrs. Wise, and she leered at the pretty, shy-faced girl. Their eyes met and their eyes laughed at one another. –Arthur Machen (Witchcraft)
WITCHCRAFT SPELLS: ‘Ornaments in Jade–The Idealist’ by Arthur Machen
The evening was damp and chilly, but the sweat streamed down his face. He struck a match, and there was a strange momentary vision of the vast room, almost empty of furniture, a hollow space bordered by grave walls and the white glimmer of the corniced ceiling.–Arthur Machen (The Idealist)
RARE HORROR: ‘The Bogy Man Will Get You’ by Robert Bloch
‘He was so different from other men’.
—Robert Bloch
GHOST PREMONITION HORROR: ‘A Diagnosis of Death’ by Ambrose Bierce
Some of you—only a few, I confess—believe in the immortality of the soul, and in apparitions which you have not the honesty to call ghosts. –Ambrose Bierce (A Diagnosis of Death)
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