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“Slowly but surely, I grew more and more disoriented, increasingly more detached from the world, something sad and awful straining around the edges of my mouth, surfacing in my eyes.”

Book:House of Leaves

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House of Leaves

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Mark Z. Danielewski

Mark Z. Danielewski is an American author born on March 5, 1966. He is known for his experimental narrative techniques and visual style in literature, with notable works including 'The Room' and 'The Time Traveler's Wife'. more

“The solitary mountain-side was made dismal by it. Laughter, when out of place, mistimed, or bursting forth from a disordered state of feeling, may be the most terrible modulation of the human voice. The laughter of one asleep, even if it be a little child,— the madman’s laugh,— the wild, screaming laugh of a born idiot,— are sounds that we sometimes tremble to hear, and would always willingly forget. Poets have imagined no utterance of fiends or hobgoblins so fearfully appropriate as a laugh. And even the obtuse lime-burner felt his nerves shaken, as this strange man looked inward at his own heart, and burst into laughter that rolled away into the night, and was indistinctly reverberated among the hills.”

Horror Laughter Madness

Book:Ethan Brand

Source: Ethan Brand

“Step by step, we walk the most horrendous paths. Stride tottering along the edge of an unsuspected abyss. Companions see nothing amiss. The world seems a normal place. Step by step, no different from anyone else – not from the outside. Not even from the inside. Apart from that tautness, that whisper of panic. The vague confusion that threatens your balance.”

Madness

Book:House of Chains

Source: House of Chains

“Qué cosa tan misteriosa es la locura. He visto a pacientes cuyos labios están cerrados en un silencio perpetuo. Viven, respiran, comen; la forma humana está presente, pero ese algo sin el que el cuerpo puede vivir, pero que no puede existir sin el cuerpo, estaba ausente. A menudo me he preguntado si tras aquellos labios sellados moraban sueños que desconocíamos o si sólo estaba el vacío.”

Madness Locura Follia

Book:Diez días en un manicomio

Source: Diez días en un manicomio