Quiz: Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker—Who Said It?
Quiz: Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker—Who Said It?
Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, and Bram Stoker elevated the Gothic horror genre to new heights. Think you can tell them apart? Take our quiz and find out.
Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, and Bram Stoker elevated the Gothic horror genre to new heights. Think you can tell them apart? Take our quiz and find out.
"Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world."
"No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be."
"What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow."
"Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality."
“Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin.”
"It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?"
"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."
"And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again."
"There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. "
"But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself."
"Despair has its own calms."
"It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial."