Thursday, April 11, 2024

Necropolis

There was at Auburn an old, abandoned cemetery. It was nearly in the heart of the town, yet by night it was as gruesome a place as the most dismal of human moods could crave. The railings about the plots were prostrate, decayed, or altogether gone. Many of the graves were sunken, from others grew sturdy pines, whose roots had committed unspeakable sin. 
 
- Ambrose Bierce



1 comments:

Otaku said...

Bierce has such a way of filling one's imagination with horror and trepidation. I can actually "see" his graveyard...