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Best New Horror 21 (The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #21) QUOTES

Best New Horror 21 (The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #21) QUOTES

1 " It was Stevenson, I think, who most notably that there are some places that simply demand a story should be told of them. ...

After all, perhaps Stevenson had only half of the matter. It is true there are places which stir the mind to think that a story must be told about them. But there are also, I believe, places which have their story stored already, and want to tell this to us, through whatever powers they can; through our legends and lore, through our rumors, and our rites. By its whispering fields and its murmuring waters, by the wailing of its winds and the groaning of its stones, by what it chants in darkness and the songs it sings in light, each place must reach out to us, to tell us, tell us what it holds. ("The Axholme Toll") "

― Stephen Jones , Best New Horror 21 (The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #21)

2 " You're not a gardener, are you? So perhaps you don't know that once a garden is established, much of good gardening is about removal rather than planting, honing what you have to produce a pleasing effect, sacrificing the particular for the good of the whole. Gardening is a creative pastime, but the result is always a work in progress; unlike a painting or a piece of music a garden is never fixed in time. ("In The Garden") "

― Rosalie Parker , Best New Horror 21 (The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #21)