If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul.

A short story is "a short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour, to one or two hours in its perusal...having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out.

And all I loved, I loved alone.

From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.

Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

To be thoroughly conversant with Man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair