And I abode there, very quiet, and moved not for a very great space; but did sweat and shake; for there was a monstrous horridness in the voice that did speak.
"The Night Land"
William Hope Hodgson
And there rose up a roar from them that did nigh slay my soul with the horridness of the noise.
"The Night Land"
William Hope Hodgson
Now, by this that I have set down swiftly, to make a little clear the sure horridness of this Sound, you shall know, even with me, the great horror that did come immediately upon my Spirit; and I did know that my Search was surely like to have an end in that moment; and I bared mine arm, for my teeth, where the Capsule did lie below the skin; and so was ready to an instant Death, if that Destruction did come upon me.
"The Night Land"
William Hope Hodgson