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“Seen from inside the bar, the avenue, the stores opposite, the street glimpsed going off at right angles, the trapezoid of sky visible above the lower buildings, are altered by the tinted windows into an elsewhere, oddly peaceful, a desert or the interior of the sea. Sometimes when he has fallen asleep face upward in the sun, his dreams have taken on this quality of supernatural bright darkness. ("Novelty")”

Book:American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now

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American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now

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John Crowley

John Crowley, born on December 1, 1942, is an American author known for his fantasy and literary novels. His works are celebrated for their rich imagination and profound thematic explorations. more

“He believed he understood, for the first time, why people say life is a dream: if you live long enough, the events of a lifetime, like the events of a dream, cannot be communicated, simply because they are of no interest to anyone. Human beings themselves, after death, become figures in a dream to the survivors , they fade away and are forgotten, like dreams that were once convincing, but which no one cares to hear about. There are parents who find in their children a receptive audience, with the result that in the child's credulous imagination they find a last semblance of life, which quickly dims out as if they had never existed. ...”

Life Dreams

Book:Diary of the War of the Pig

Source: Diary of the War of the Pig

“It was a time of dark dreams. They washed in like flotsam on the night tide, slipping beneath doorways and window latches, rising through the streets and hills; and the little fishing-town of Scarlock foundered deep.”

Dreams Sea Nightmares

Book:On Dark Shores: The Lady

Source: On Dark Shores: The Lady

“Sometimes I wait at the bottom of those dark stairs, I sit at the bottom of the stairs, I wait beyond the bottom of the stairs and listen to the sounds my wife and children make as they sleep, the sounds our animals make as they step carefully through our dreams and out the other side to polished floor and cold window. Sometimes I wait so long I become unsure if I am asleep, or awake, or dead.”

Children Sleep Wife Dreams Awake Dead Pets Sounds Alseep Cold Window Polished Floor The Bottom Of The Stairs

Book:The Man on the Ceiling

Source: The Man on the Ceiling