The essence of nightmare lies less in the simple experience… - Michael Shea

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The essence of nightmare lies less in the simple experience of horrors than in the unpreventable fruition of horrors foreknown.

Michael Shea

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Michael Shea (July 3, 1946 – February 16, 2014) was an American fantasy, horror, and science fiction author.

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Friedrich Nietzsche Joseph Conrad Fritz Leiber H. G. Wells Jack Vance

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"Come on," I said. "We have to try. The effort is utterly pointless, but inaction seems an even greater agony."

Is it not unsettling to consider the blind unlikelihoods that shape one’s fate?

Weigh then your wealth, and judge if it’s more dear
To you than life. If not, your course is clear.

The essence of nightmare lies less in the simple experience of horrors than in the unpreventable fruition of horrors foreknown. - Michael Shea

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