Fear is something horrible, an atrocious sensation, a sort of decomposition of the soul, a terrible spasm of brain and heart, the very memory of which brings a shudder of anguish, but when one is brave he feels it neither under fire nor in the presence of sure death nor in the face of any well-known danger. It springs up under certain abnormal conditions, under certain mysterious influences in the presence of vague peril. Real fear is a sort of reminiscence of fantastic terror of the past. A man who believes in ghosts and imagines he sees a specter in the darkness must feel fear in all its horror...
- ISBN13 9781291297638
- Publish Date 21 January 2013
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 6 August 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Lulu.com
- Format eBook (OEB)
- Language English