“Squats on a toad-stool under a tree, a bodiless childfull of life in the gloom.”— Thomas Lovell Beddoes
“The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand to me, with a red light of triumph in his eyes, and with a smile that Judas in hell might be proud of.”— Bram Stoker
“This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry.”— Mervyn Peake
“And we were singing; and the moon shone faint, And in the ancient elms, the wind was heard, Murmuring, as of a ghostly multitude.”— Edwin Arlington Robinson