Theme: death
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Tension of Truth
Holmes, that you have already made up your mind,” said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion’s sleeve. “Perhaps I have.” “Then, for pity’s sa...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Scientific Inquiry
But after what we now see, to allow a doubt is to insult scientific inquiry. There is the body; you can see it; you can touch it. It is not a skeleton...
The War of the Worlds / Confronting Mortality
“That’s what I’ve been thinking,” he said; “that’s what I’ve been thinking. Most of the people were hard at it squealing and exciting themselves. I’ve...
Frankenstein / Decay and Mortality
My attention was fixed upon every object the most insupportable to the delicacy of the human feelings. I saw how the fine form of man was degraded and...
Dracula / Corrupted Purity
The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness. Van Helsing stepped out, and, obedient to his gest...
Dracula / Isolation and Grief
If you could have looked into my very heart then when I want to laugh; if you could have done so when the laugh arrived; if you could do so now, when ...