"Knowledge is power-and power of one sort or another is the secret lust of human souls; and here is, beside the sense of exploration, the undefinable interest of a story, and above all, something forbidden, to stimulate the contumacious appetite."

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Source : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (2016). “Uncle Silas: Horror Collections”, p.15, 谷月社

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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