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Princess Marie-Christine d' Orleans, 1813-1839

Joan of Arc, modeled in marble 1837, cast mid-1840s, bronze

Clark Art Institute, Massachusetts Inv. 2007.14

"Do you remember the sight we saw, my soul,that soft summer morning round a turning in the path,the disgusting carcass on a bed scattered with stones,its legs in the air like a woman in need burning its wedding poisons like a fountain with its rhythmic sobs,I could hear it clearly flowing with a long murmuring sound,but I touch my body in vain to find the wound.I am the vampire of my own heart,one of the great outcasts condemned to eternal laughter who can no longer smile.Am I dead?I must be dead." -Charles Baudelaire

"Where there is no imagination, there is no horror." -Arthur Conan Doyle

"Darkness falls across the land,the midnight hour is close at hand" -Vincent Price, "Thriller"

"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream" -Edgar Allan Poe

“But the most frightening thing of all was the wind howling among the trees. Ichabod was sure that it was the sound of the Headless Horseman out looking for his head.” — Washington Irving, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

“Evil has only the power that we give it.” — Ray Bradbury, “Something Wicked This Way Comes”

"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made." -Edgar Allan Poe

"There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while, man's evil prying calls them just within our range." -H.P. Lovecraft

“It’s probably wrong to believe there can be any limit to the horror which the human mind can experience ...and the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity.” — Stephen King, “Pet Sematary”