Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.

Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.

We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!

Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.

I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!

There was a deliberate voluptuousness that was both thrilling and repulsive. And as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal till I could see in the moonlight the moisture Then lapped the white, sharp teeth. Lower and lower went her head. I closed my eyes in a languorous ecstasy and waited.

Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.