"The difficulty with Poe is not figuring out which of his stories rise to the level required of this collection, but rather which of his stories to exclude from it."
- Andrew Barger
"and the wind gathered the leaves as a mother gathers her children and blew them irrevocably, lovingly, into the haunted wildness"
- Elliot Mabeuse
"Life was profligate with beauty, only if you stopped to look, only if you had someone to share it with."