As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling, the ghastly or the blindingly exquisite fish of the imagination before they whip a...
I saw a PuffinIn the Bay of BaffinSittin on NuffinAnd it was Laffin.
Hold fast To the lawOf the lastCold tome,Where the earthOf the truthLies thickOn the page,And the loamOf faithIn the inkLong fledFrom the droneOf the nibFlows onThrough the breathOf the boneRebornIn a...
There are times when the air that floats between mortals becomes, in its stillness and silence, as cruel as the edge of a scythe.
Steerpike of the Many Problems, said the Doctor. What did you say they were? My memory is so very untrustworthy. It’s as fickle as a fox. Ask me to name the third lateral bloodvessel from the extremit...
Seeing an Earl as an owl on a mantelpiece, and having part of one's face removed by a cat, both on the same morning, can temporarily undermine the self-control of any man.
Prunesquallor, as urbane as ever, had nevertheless something in his fish-like eyes that might almost be described as determination. One glance at his sister was sufficient to make him realize that to...
It was obvious that their sorrows were conjoined.
It was not often that Flay approved of happiness in others. He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt. But on an occasion such as this it was different, fo...
It was a long head.It was a wedge, a sliver, a grotesque slice in which it seemed the features had been forced to stake their claims, and it appeared that they had done so in a great hurry and with no...
How's the blood-stream, my dear, invaluable little woman? How's the blood-stream?...It's quite comfortable, sir...I think, sir, thank you....Aha!...a comfortable stream, is it? Aha! v-e-r-y good. V-e-...
Behind him she saw something which by contrast with the alien incalculable figure before her, was close and real. It was something which she understood, something which she could never do without, or...
You are a clever little monster,' said the Doctor, tossing off another cognac and placing the glass upon the table with a click. 'A diabolically clever little monster.' 'That is what I hoped you would...
The sun sank with a sob and darkness waded in from all horizons so that the sky contracted and there was no more light left in the world, when, at this very moment of annihilation, the moon, as though...
Swelter, as soon as he saw who it was, stopped dead, and across his face little billows of flesh ran swiftly here and there until, as though they had determined to adhere to the same impulse, they swe...
Swelter's eyes meet those of his enemy, and never has there held between four globes of gristle so sinister a hell of hatred. Had the flesh, the fibres, and the bones of the chef and those of Mr Flay...
She could feel the blood flowing within her and she felt that she must die or break forth into leaves and flowers. It was not passion she felt: not the passion of the body, though that was there, but...
Mount and begone. The world awaits you.
Meanwhile Bellgrove had been savouring love's rare aperitif, the ageless language of the eyes.
Let them touch him. For every hair that’s hurt I’ll stop a heart.