Show Notes
“I went to sleep at once, and from dreamlessness awoke suddenly to a consciousness of terror and imminent peril.”
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“I woke again with the sense that there was something creeping up to the house, like the fog that was now thick outside my window, and seeking admittance.”
“With a sudden sinking of his heart, he heard behind him the step which he thought he had silenced for ever.”
“Terror, that was slowly becoming a little more definite, terror of some dark and violent deed that was momently drawing nearer to me held me in its vice.”
“At that moment I saw the face of Fear; my mouth went dry, and I heard my heart leaping and cracking in my throat.”