"When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appearance; and these bushes, crowding huddled about us, assumed for me in the darkness a bizarre grotesquerie of appearance that lent to them somehow the aspect of purposeful and living creatures. Their very ordinariness, I felt, masked what was malignant and hostile to us."

Source : Algernon Blackwood (2008). “Three Supernatural Classics: The Willows, the Wendigo and the Listener”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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