The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927)

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• It was a godless sound; one of those low-keyed, insidious outrages of nature which are not meant to be. To call it a dull wail, a doom-dragged whine or a hopeless howl of chorused anguish and stricken flesh without mind would be to miss its most quintessential loathsomeness and soul-sickening overtones.

• He screamed and screamed and screamed in a voice whose falsetto panic no acquaintance of his would ever have recognized..

• He was drenched with perspiration and without means of producing a light; stricken and unnerved in the abysmal blackness and horror, and crushed with a memory he never could efface.

• “A man can’t tamper with Nature beyond certain limits, and every horror you have woven will rise up to wipe you out.” – Dr. Marinus Bicknell Willett