'Anne, my sister Anne, do you see nothing coming?' 'I see nothing but the sun that makes everything dusty, and the grass that grows green.'

But the blood always remained, for the key was enchanted.

When she had done her work, she would go over to the chimney corner, and sit among the cinders.

These were all the women whom Bluebeard had married, and whose throats he had cut one after the other.

It is brave to be involved To be not fearful to be unresolved.

It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, …

Horror is always aware of its cause; terror never is. That is precisely what makes terror terrifying.