" Mrs. Radcliffe, you of all people should be glad that Gothics are all the rage. Too bad, though, because they’re mutants, you know, hideous, monstrous travesties of every honest fear man ever had.” Another book, another toss. “Mr. Machen, did you know that you and your kind have been called old-fashioned? Out-of-date and worn in a worn, cynical world. Poe, an ass; Hawthorne a pansy. "

― Charles L. Grant , Tales from the Nightside