The day the library was shut down, he thought, some maiden librarian had moved down the room, pushing each chair against its table. Carefully, with a… - Richard Matheson

But are his needs any more shocking than the needs of other animals and men? Are his deeds more outrageous than the deeds of the parent who drained the spirit from his child? The vampire may foster quickened heartbeats and levitated hair. But is he worse than the parent who gave to society a neurotic child who became a politician?

The world’s gone mad, he thought. The dead walk about and I think nothing of it. The return of corpses has become trivial in import. How quickly one accepts the incredible if only one sees it.

For he was a man and he was alone and these things had no importance to him.