*

“It’s funny,” I said. “It’s very funny. And it’s a lot of fun too, to be in love.”

“Do you think so?” Her eyes looked flat again.

“I don’t mean fun that way. In a way, it’s an enjoyable feeling.”

“No,” she said. “I think it’s hell on earth.”

The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway

‘And all around them, the bestiality of night rises on tenebrous wings. The vampire’s time has come.’

’Salem’s Lot, Stephen King

‘And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.’

‘The Masque of the Red Death’, Edgar Allan Poe