NightScape

This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion.

Shakespeare, King Lear

To Henry James,

who showed new ways in which tales of terror could be written-and the human secrets they could hide.