Theme: trauma
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Artistic Confrontation
I overcame the horror that inspired me, and, taking a pencil, began to draw it. “Perhaps this is the same which the Alector saw,” said Conseil.
Frankenstein / Psychological Turmoil
Save me!” I imagined that the monster seized me; I struggled furiously and fell down in a fit. A meeting, which he anticipated with such joy, so stran...
Frankenstein / Secrets Unveiled
I will confide this tale of misery and terror to you the day after our marriage shall take place, for, my sweet cousin, there must be perfect confiden...
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...
Dracula / Dislocation and Awakening
I seem to remember that once the West Lighthouse was right under me, and then there was a sort of agonising feeling, as if I were in an earthquake, an...
The War of the Worlds / Echoes of Despair
I have an impression that many of the houses here were still occupied by scared inhabitants, too frightened even for flight. Here too the evidence of ...
Frankenstein / Fear and Isolation
My wife and my sister will never recover from their horror. Take possession of your tenement and let me fly from this place.’ “Felix trembled violentl...
The War of the Worlds / Domestic Dread
I startled my wife at the doorway, so haggard was I. I went into the dining room, sat down, drank some wine, and so soon as I could collect myself suf...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Vulnerability and Survival
Drink this.” I dashed some brandy into the water, and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. “And now, Doctor, perhaps you would kindl...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Psychological Turmoil
It was with the greatest difficulty that I succeeded in doing so. Hamburg, the house on the Konigstrasse, my dear cousin Gretchen--all that world whic...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Psychological Turmoil
That was a week ago, and from that time I have not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor seen the man in the road.” “Pray conti...
The War of the Worlds / Shared Struggle
It would seem that a number of men or animals had rushed across the lawn. I began to see his face, blackened and haggard, as no doubt mine was also.
The War of the Worlds / Urban Conflict
Going on towards Brompton, the streets were quiet again. Here I came once more upon the black powder in the streets and upon dead bodies. I saw altoge...
Frankenstein / Journey of Despair
Six years had passed since then: _I_ was a wreck, but nought had changed in those savage and enduring scenes. I performed the first part of my journey...