‘She noticed also that the hallway was even more exaggeratedly out of proportion than the one they were standing in. So much so that at its far end what had started out to be walls and spindlework archways were now mere parodies of themselves, splays of wood and wainscoting gnarled and folded back on their original forms.’
Categorie: boeken
Short Story: The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance (M.R. James, 1913)
‘The letters which I now publish were sent to me recently by a person who knows me to be interested in ghost stories. There is no doubt about their authenticity.’
Short Story: A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens, 1843)
‘“God bless us, every one!” said Tiny Tim, the last of all.’
Short Story: The Kit-Bag (Algernon Blackwood, 1908)
‘It is difficult to say exactly at what point fear begins, when the causes of that fear are not plainly before the eyes.’
Short Story: Between the Lights (E.F. Benson, 1912)
‘But now – so it seemed to me – there was going to be real hide-and-seek, real terrors were going to lurk in dark corners, or if not real terrors, terrors so convincing as to assume the garb of reality, were going to pounce on us.’
Short Story: Lost Hearts (M.R. James, 1895)
‘Whilst the girl stood still, half smiling, with her hands clasped over her heart, the boy, a thin shape, with black hair and ragged clothing raised his arms in the air with an appearance of menace and of unappeasable hunger and longing.’
Short Story: Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad (M.R. James, 1904)
‘Quis est iste qui uenit. It ought to mean, “Who is this who is coming?” Well, the best way to find out is evidently to whistle for him.’
