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Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain strong impressions (involving t...more

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Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.

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The cloudless day is richer at its close;A golden glory settles on the lea;Soft, stealing shadows hint of cool reposeTo mellowing landscape, and to ca...more

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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.

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It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal always excites aversi...more

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I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit.

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Perhaps I should not hope to convey in mere words the unutterable hideousness that can dwell in absolute silence and barren immensity.

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That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort of lines and proportions that co...more