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The swaying corpse upon the wall Grows rotten with the waning light; And crawling shadows of the night Lie on the body like a pall.
Dead spirits dance upon the slope; Blatant are bat-things overhead; But now the revenants have fled, The glad fantasias yet grope.
Only the ghouls are gently stirred By tainted gusts lost from the gale; And in the faun-infested vale Wild screeches of a fiend are heard.
Impending o'er the noisome spawn, In glaucous haze the Phosphor steals-- Thence to Azrael's eyes reveals The wrestling wraiths on death's dark lawn--
Fast scaling up the ebon sky To cull and slay the gnawing blight, All cool of the corpse's mute delight, Or if the baneful fiend should die.
The Willows A. Blackwood The Inhabitant of Carcosa A. Bierce The Yellow Sign R. W. Chambers The Upper Berth F. Marion Crawford The Monkey's Paw W. W. Jacobs A View from a Hill M. R. James Seaton's Aunt W. de la Mare The House of Sounds M. P. Shiel Dream of Armageddon H. G. Wells Shadows on the Wall Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
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"If the devil suddenly materialized, horns, tail, hooves, brimstone and all, sneaking in at the midnight hour and sat down beside one of us ordinary disbelieving mortals--well, that's my own idea of a good weird story! Most stories react upon one rather distantly. They communicate merely a distant mental fear, and not a physical fear. If I were to choose the most entertaining book I have ever read, I would unquestionably name 'Seven Footprints to Satan' by A. Merritt. Just as unhesitatingly I would name him as the insuperable weird writer, since I have never experienced the physical fleshly cowardice of the preternatural, either in actual life or in imaginative reconstruction of fiction, more vividly than when I contacted Lucifer in person in that book. What is the best weird fiction narrative ever penned? Vote one from yours truly goes to 'Seven Footprints to Satan'."--J. Harvey Haggard
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