The Tales of Terror / By Christabel Forsythe Fiske
The Tales of Terror / By Christabel Forsythe Fiske
Christabel Forsyth Fiske
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Asleep ! Asleep !" low, mysterious, and awful, which floated to me down the staircase of a house recently made desolate by death, curdled my blood none the less because my common sense assured my affrighted nerves that the phenomenon must be explained. The Tales of Terror 15 This, then, seems to me Mrs. Rad cliff e's signal merit. She marched ahead boldly and took possession of the field barely hinted at by Clara Reeve. Human life as it surges and hums in the active world, she does not know. Th...e pas- sions of Love, of Hate, of Pride, of Avarice, she handles clumsily. But the passion of Fear she does know, and that\ so thoroughly that she scorns any extensive use of terrors/ to which only children are really subject, and chooses those which may justifiably shake the strongest nerves. A man wandering through con vent- vaults at midnight may well start at the low groan behind him, even though it be but the stifled cry of a tortured prisoner; and a girl sitting alone at stormy twilight in a wind-swept turret, poring over weird pages of moth-eaten manuscript, would be stolid indeed if she did not impute some sinister meaning to the creeping rustle of the tapestry at her shoulder.
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