“Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen, Voices whisper in the trees, Tonight is Halloween!”

  “On Halloween, I made us ghosts but when we slipped on our costumes, we looked exactly the same.”

"Autumn. It's crispness, it's anticipation, it's melancholia, it's cool breezes replacing summer's heat. ...

“Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is...

“It was just after my election in 1860, when the news had been coming in thick and fast all day and there had been a great “hurrah, boys,”...

"Spirits surround us on every side... they have driven me from hearth and home, from wife and child." Image source.

Dear Mrs. Budd:   In 1894 a friend of mine shipped as a deck hand on the Steamer Tacoma, Capt. John Davis. They sailed from San Franci...

"This world would be a damned fine place if man were off it."

"Do you ever find yourself talking with the dead? Since [my son] Willie's death, I catch myself every day, involuntarily talki...

"I separated the joints - the arm joints, the leg joints - and had to do two boilings. I think I used four boxes of Soilex for each...

“In my lifetime I have murdered 21 human beings, I have committed thousands of burglaries, robberies, larcenies, arsons and, last but not le...

“He reached out with one bird-claw hand. He closed it around my wrist and I could feel the hot cancer that was loose and raving through his ...