Quotes from John Franklin Bardin

Although the frightful is, perhaps rightly, conjoined in our minds with the darkly coloured, the harshly dissonant - with bludgeon blows and the odours of decay - the most terrible experiences are often bereft of these properties of melodrama.

A strange calmness had overcome her with her realization that she no longer cared. A tension inside her head had been released, an enigmatic, ticking mechanism had ceased to operate, and now she floated in the pool of circumstances that had drowned her desires, was held fast in it, like scum on the surface of a pond.