The Horror at Red Hook

To Malone the sense of latent mystery in existence was always present In youth he had felt the hidden beauty and ecstasy of things and had been a poet but poverty and sorrow and exile had turned his gaze in darker directions and he had thrilled at the imputations of evil in the world around Daily life had for him come to be a phantasmagoria of macabre shadow studies now glittering and leering with concealed rottenness A Masterpiece of horror