And then the figure, turning slowly round, discovered to Frederic the fleshless jaws and empty sockets of a skeleton, wrapt in a hermit’s cowl. Angels of grace, protect me! cried Frederic recoiling. Deserve their protection, said the spectre.

Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

Hermetic quote Walpole Otranto deserve

Consider also:

  1. Mind and Nature
  2. Horror Films of the 1990s
  3. The Blessing of Pan
  4. “Several times, of late, I have seen films where the tinkers had improved a good novel out of existence. The beginning, end, and middle of the story had been dexterously amputated or ‘arranges.’ We were not informed of the relationship existing between the various characters; the motives for their acts were utterly obscure. A ‘situation’ would ultimately arise–and then, instead of a denouement, the film stopped suddenly! One felt as if one had somehow got into a lunatic asylum.”
  5. “O desecrated lovers! O divine Passionate martyrs, virgin unto death! O kissing daughters of the unfed brine! O sisters of the west wind’s pitiful breath, There is One that pitieth!”