To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious.... There are far worse things awaiting man than death. - Garrett Fort

Do you believe that the dead can influence the living?... Could you conceive of a superhuman mentality influencing someone from the other side of death?... There is such a one.... Someone, something that reaches out from beyond the grave and fills me with horrible impulses.

She was beautiful when she died—a hundred years ago.

The Abbey always reminds me of that old toast, 'Above lofty timbers, the walls around are bare, echoing to our laughter, as though the dead were there.'