author: george sylvester viereck

... soul is the instinct that leads the soul from the seen to the unseen, from ... not die forever, my human love soared beyond its brief trial of terror and ... night, the calm reason of Faber would strip of their magical seemings; the Eyes ...

... Emily Brontë, Jack London, Henry James, Théophile Gautier, Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Le Gallienne, Guy Boothby, Jane Austen, Algernon Blackwood, Ralph Adams Cram, Thomas De Quincey, John Meade ... Naked May Be In Rags Table of Contents The ...

... Pathfinder 1904 66 3,000 Amphion . 1911 3,500 66 Druid 1912 Torpedo Boat ... good omen for future success . " Though but little time has passed since ... feats of the German navy in comparison to which the German losses at Heligoland ...

... Sweeney Todd come by these articles, except by the murder of their owners?' This, indeed, seemed but too probable a supposition, and the more especially so, as in a further part of this bureau a great quantity of apparel was found by ...

... all things shining , all things bright . For thou hast given unto them A shadow , dancing like an elf , That often seems unto the eye More lovely than the thing itself . I worship thee : thy holy light Charms lilies from the crusty sod ...

A young writer comes under the powerful influence of a mysterious older master, who seems to have left a trail of ruined proteges in his wake. The story is as much about the nature of artistic creation as it is a chilling vampire tale.

... origin is lost in the gray dawn of the past, and who have dwelt in their ... grim beasts that haunted it. The fisher's village lay some distance to the south ... dawn, the sky shone blue and clear; the rising sun made jewels of the dripping ...