...If you do not take it up with you in some way, I shall be under the necessity of breaking your head with this shovel
Edgar Allan PoeMen die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed.
Edgar Allan PoeThe history of all Magazines shows plainly that those which have attained celebrity were indebted for it to articles similar in natureto Berenice--although, I grant you, far superior in style and execution. I say similar in nature. You ask me in what does this nature consist? In the ludicrous heightened into the grotesque: the fearful coloured into the horrible: the witty exaggerated into the burlesque: the singular wrought out into the strange and mystical.
Edgar Allan PoeThat man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
Edgar Allan Poe