To the Sabbath! To the Sabbath!' they cried. 'On to the Witches' Sabbath!" Up and down that narrow hall they danced, the women on each side of him, t…

- Algernon Blackwood

No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the walls of memo…

- Algernon Blackwood

Time is measured by the quality and not the quanity of sensations it contains.

- Algernon Blackwood

And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must…

- Algernon Blackwood

It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunte…

- Algernon Blackwood

The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little atmosphere of books and dreamings.

- Algernon Blackwood

When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appeara…

- Algernon Blackwood

But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm.

- Algernon Blackwood

Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.

- Algernon Blackwood