“In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and would if present bring to fulfillment. For the body without which the wing is a useless frozen ornament. ("A Short Guide To The City")”
Peter Straub
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now
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