Crystal

“The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance;
We find delight in the most loathsome things;
Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings,
And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“I do not love men: I love what devours them.”
― André Gide, Prometheus Illbound

“The result is ... that there's no room left in the world for the weird – though plenty for crude, contemptuous, wisecracking, fun-poking imitations of it.”
― Fritz Leiber, Heroes and Horrors

“Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.”
― Guy de Maupassant