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"I'm a handful of pages into this one and struggling. I definitely prefer horror fiction firmly rooted in character and the cold, distant third-person narration here is making things very difficult." — Dec 11, 2023 12:33PM
"I'm a handful of pages into this one and struggling. I definitely prefer horror fiction firmly rooted in character and the cold, distant third-person narration here is making things very difficult." — Dec 11, 2023 12:33PM


“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
― Supernatural Horror in Literature
― Supernatural Horror in Literature

“Name none of the fallen, for they stand in our place, and stand there still in each moment of our lives. Let my death hold no glory, and let me die forgotten and unknown. Let it not be said that I was one among the dead to accuse the living.”
― Deadhouse Gates
― Deadhouse Gates

“Evil is relative…You can’t hang a sign on it. You can’t touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger.”
― The Black Company
― The Black Company

“Whirrun ignored ‘em. ‘Then, when I’ve got two cut,â€� and he dropped a pale slab of cheese on one slice then slapped the other on top like he was catching a fly, ‘I trap the cheese between then, and there you have it!â€�
‘Bread and cheese.� Yon weighed the half-loaf in one hand and the cheese in the other. ‘Just the same as I’ve got.� And he bit off the cheese and tossed it to Scorry.
Whirrun sighed. ‘Have none of you no vision?� He held up his masterpiece to such light as there was, which was almost none. ‘This is no more bread and cheese than a fine axe is wood and iron, or a live person is meat and har.�
‘What is it, then?� asked Drfod, rocking back from his wet wood and tossing the flint aside in disgust.
‘A whole new thing. A forging of the humble part of bread and cheese into a greater whole. I call it â€� a cheese-trap.â€� Whirrun took a dainty nibble from one corner. ‘Oh, yes, my friends. This tastes like â€� progressâ€�”
― The Heroes
‘Bread and cheese.� Yon weighed the half-loaf in one hand and the cheese in the other. ‘Just the same as I’ve got.� And he bit off the cheese and tossed it to Scorry.
Whirrun sighed. ‘Have none of you no vision?� He held up his masterpiece to such light as there was, which was almost none. ‘This is no more bread and cheese than a fine axe is wood and iron, or a live person is meat and har.�
‘What is it, then?� asked Drfod, rocking back from his wet wood and tossing the flint aside in disgust.
‘A whole new thing. A forging of the humble part of bread and cheese into a greater whole. I call it â€� a cheese-trap.â€� Whirrun took a dainty nibble from one corner. ‘Oh, yes, my friends. This tastes like â€� progressâ€�”
― The Heroes

“I have seen the dark universe yawning
Where the black planets roll without aim,
Where they roll in their horror unheeded,
Without knowledge, or lustre, or name.”
― Nemesis
Where the black planets roll without aim,
Where they roll in their horror unheeded,
Without knowledge, or lustre, or name.”
― Nemesis

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