“I shuddered at the idea of this incarnate fiend, whose soul is black with shocking crimes, mingling free and unobserved amongst the harmless crowds, meditating perhaps a new and more fearful cycle of infamies. I tell you, sir, that an awful being stalks through the streets, a being before whom the sunlight itself should blacken, and the summer air grow chill and dank.”
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Arthur Machen was an English author renowned for his supernatural and horror fiction. His works often explore the boundaries between human consciousness and the supernatural, profoundly influencing 20th-century horror literature. more
“Traveling the roads alone was a temptation for evil”
“It is why Good wins every story...They fight for each other. [Evil] can only fight for ourselves”
“One struggles to know good from evil, but really they're often so very much alike.”
“When evil takes up to violence, the good have no choice but to defend themselves.”
“There must always be evil, and you might as well give it name and be able to look it in the eye”