“Villains!” I shrieked, “dissemble no more! I admit the deed!-tear up the planks!-here, here!-it is the beating of his hideous heart!”
Tag: horror
The Masque of the Red Death, Edgar Allan Poe
And now was acknowledged the presence of Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night.
The Premature Burial, Edgar Allan Poe
“Alas! The grim legion of sepulchral terrors cannot be regarded as altogether fanciful – but, like the Demons in whose company Afrasiab made his voyage down the Oxus, they must sleep, or they will devour us – they must be suffered to slumber, or we perish.”
Took, Mary Downing Hahn
“The old woman sniffs fear. The girl is scared of the dark and the old house. She doesn’t want to live here. Well, she won’t live here long, will she ?”
Fragments of Horror, Junji Ito
Junji Ito made his professional manga debut in 1987 and since then has gone on to be recognized as one of the greatest contemporary artists working in the horror genre. This is his first collection of horror stories in eight years.