A fairy tale in terms of blood-a world in anamorphosis-a perversion of all rationality.... It's unthinkable, senseless, like black magic and sorcery and thaumaturgy. It's downright demented. (S. S. Van Dine)

A fairy tale in terms of blood-a world in anamorphosis-a perversion of all rationality.... It's unthinkable, senseless, like black magic and sorcery and thaumaturgy. It's downright demented.

S. S. Van Dine

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