by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
“Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder, and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!”
by Bram Stoker
“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.”
by Robert Louis Stevenson
“All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.”
by Washington Irving
“It is said by some to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper, whose head had been carried away by a cannon-ball, in some nameless battle during the Revolutionary War, and who is ever and anon seen by the country folk hurrying along in the gloom of night... “
by Gaston Leroux
"Look! You want to see! See! Feast your eyes, glut your soul on my cursed ugliness! Look at Erik's face! Now you know the face of the voice!”
by H. G. Wells
“You don’t understand,” he said, “who I am or what I am. I’ll show you. By Heaven! I’ll show you.” Then he put his open palm over his face and withdrew it. The centre of his face became a black cavity.
by Victor Hugo
“Her tears suddenly ceased, she gazed at him with the look of an idiot. He had fallen on his knees and was devouring her with eyes of flame. ‘Dost thou understand? I love thee!’ he cried again. ‘What love!’ said the unhappy girl with a shudder. He resumed,— ‘The love of a damned soul.’”
by John William Polidori
“A stake was driven entirely through the heart and body of Arnold Paul, at which he is reported to have cried out as dreadfully as if he had been alive. This done, they cut off his head, burned his body, and threw the ashes into his grave.”
by Oscar Wilde
"I fear that the ghost exists," said Lord Canterville, smiling, "though it may have resisted the overtures of your enterprising impresarios. It has been well known for three centuries, since 1584 in fact, and always makes its appearance before the death of any member of our family."
Ambrose Bierce
1891
Nathaniel Hawthorne
1863
W. W. Jacobs
1901
Mark Twain
1870
Sheridan Le Fanu
1871
E. F. Benson
1912
Algernon Blackwood
1910
Robert Louis Stevenson
1884
Ambrose Bierce
1898
