Chill Tidings: Dark Tales of the Christmas Season (British Library Tales of the Weird Book 19) by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Christmas ghost stories, yuletide, Victorian ghosts, classic gothic, classic horror fiction, fireside stories, traditional ghost stories
Publisher: British Library Publishing
Published: 2020-11-02T06:00:00+00:00

‘The nethermost caverns,’ wrote the mad Arab, ‘are not for the fathoming of eyes that see; for their marvels are strange and terrific. Cursed the ground where dead thoughts live new and oddly bodied, and evil the mind that is held by no head. Wisely did Ibn Schacabao say, that happy is the tomb where no wizard hath lain, and happy the town at night whose wizards are all ashes. For it is of old rumour that the soul of the devil-bought hastes not from his charnel clay, but fats and instructs the very worm that gnaws; till out of corruption horrid life springs, and the dull scavengers of earth wax crafty to vex it and swell monstrous to plague it. Great holes secretly are digged where earth’s pores ought to suffice, and things have learnt to walk that ought to crawl.’

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