Incremental Doom

“Spirit!” he cried, tight clutching at its robe, “Why show me this, if I am past all hope?!”

"Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief."

"'These are but shadows of the things that have been,' said the Ghost."

"I am here tonight to warn you, that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate. A chance and hope of my procuring, Ebenezer."

“Be a good sport, Tessie...All of us took the same chance.”

"She thrust a dimpled finger In each ear, shut eyes and ran: Curious Laura chose to linger Wondering at each merchant man."

"It tasted strange, but Kiara could not tell if it was the guilt she felt for killing it that made it taste as such. Perhaps it was the fear."

Horror verse than you ever imagined!Works by Longfellow, Poe, Byron, Blake, Yeats, and Service

"I drink," he said, "to the buried that repose around us.""And I to your long life."

"What troubles me so dreadfully is the question, What does the spectre mean? What is its warning against?...What is the danger? Where is the danger? There is danger overhanging, somewhere on the Line." 

"The first man had his three wishes. . .I don't know what the first two were, but the third was for death."

"You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man."

"I said, 'Are all these animals dangerous?' He smiled. 'Oh, no! Man is the worst.'"

"The creature was still alive, incredibly ... Save me, and I shall save you, it said unto me..."

"...with that look Basil understood many things beyond human comprehension that both terrified and delighted him."

"It was often easy to forget the Twins' wickedness between incidents, for they appeared frequently to be mere children at play..."

"Though privately discouraged by her salutary condition, he was cheered by all manner of odd portents that he observed as her lying-in drew ever closer."

"He was apparently seventy years old, actually about fifty. Something besides years had had a hand in his aging."

"Listen -- what do you mean, he made you? What kind of talk is that?"

All through the haunted forest there could be nothing more frightful than the figure of Goodman Brown...The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of man.

"And in the sting and misery of his defeat, Conradin began to chant loudly and defiantly the hymn of his threatened idol..."

"All those good folk were dead now...Given up to the urgency to find the roots of evil and dig them out..."

"I know now. I know the identity of the pale man, and I know the meaning of his smile."

"A beacon of divine light cast over The Pit would have a great influence upon the future of Hell, don't you agree?"

"We were silent for some time. We were both looking at the same thing, the two dates on the gravestone, and one was right."

"All these and security were within. Without was the 'Red Death.'"

"...the incident ends where it began - in darkness and in doubt."

"And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor..."

"For the cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see..."

"...as I shuddered with fear and loathing, within me was this evil glee—this voice which whispered, "You know this place! You belong here! Is it not good to be home?"