There are horrors beyond horrors, and this was one of those nuclei of all dreamable hideousness which the cosmos saves to blast an accursed and unhappy few.
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The Shunned House by
H. P. Lovecraft
The general fact is, that the house was never regarded by the solid part of the community as in any real sense "haunted." There were no widespread tales of rattling chains, cold currents of air, extinguished lights, or faces at the window. Extremists sometimes said the house was "unlucky," but that is as far as even they went. What was really beyond dispute is that a frightful proportion of persons died there.
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The Shunned House by
H. P. Lovecraft
"I say alone, for one who sits by a sleeper is indeed alone; perhaps more alone than he can realize."
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The Shunned House by
H. P. Lovecraft