I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
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The Fall of the House of Usher
by
Edgar Allan Poe
It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my own soul so torn with doubt and terror!
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The Parasite
by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Terror made me cruel.
~
Wuthering Heights
by
Emily Bronte
"They all agreed that it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend. I assure you that there is a reign of terror in the district, and that it is a hardy man who will cross the moor at night."
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle