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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Fall of the House of Usher<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Edgar Allan Poe<\/a><\/p>\n He understood now why the world was strange, why horses galloped furiously, and why trains whistled as they raced through stations. All the comedy and terror of nightmare gripped his heart with pincers made of ice.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Other Wing<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Algernon Blackwood<\/a><\/p>\n “Too much! Wait till you have lived here longer. Look down the valley! See the cloud of a hundred chimneys that overshadows it! I tell you that the cloud of murder hangs thicker and lower than that over the heads of the people. It is the Valley of Fear, the Valley of Death. The terror is in the hearts of the people from the dusk to the dawn. Wait, young man, and you will learn for yourself.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Valley of Fear<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/a><\/p>\n Terror made me cruel.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Wuthering Heights<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Emily Bronte<\/a><\/p>\n And something born of the snowy desolation, born of the midnight and the silent grandeur, born of the great listening hollows of the night, something that lay ‘twixt terror and wonder, dropped from the vast wintry spaces down into his heart\u2014and called him.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Glamour of the Snow<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Algernon Blackwood<\/a><\/p>\n “They all agreed that it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend. I assure you that there is a reign of terror in the district, and that it is a hardy man who will cross the moor at night.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Hound of the Baskervilles<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror. ~ Edgar Allan Poe – And more Terror Quotes from literature<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,136],"tags":[323,123,322,826,855,748,856,158,619,765,342],"class_list":["post-3888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everything-else","category-sir-arthur-conan-doyle","tag-algernon-blackwood","tag-edgar-allan-poe","tag-emily-bronte","tag-sir-arthur-conan-doyle","tag-terror-quotes","tag-the-fall-of-the-house-of-usher","tag-the-glamour-of-the-snow","tag-the-hound-of-the-baskervilles","tag-the-other-wing","tag-the-valley-of-fear","tag-wuthering-heights"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}More Terror Quotes from Literature<\/a><\/h2>\n