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You can get used to horror, he thought. When it has lost immediacy and is no longer pungent and has become a steady diet. When it has degraded to a ch...more

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Yet, despite all, it is a difficult thing to admit the existence of ghosts in a coldly factual world. One's very instincts rebel at the admission of s...more

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It’s horrible," she said.He looked at her in surprise. Horrible? Wasn’t that odd? He hadn’t thought that for years. For him the word “horror” had beco...more

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But are his needs any more shocking than the needs of any other animals and men? Are his deeds more outrageous than the deeds of the parent who draine...more