Author: K.W. Jeter

Cites

• Bible (1)
  • IN: Grim Expectations (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made men upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
    FROM: Ecclesiastes 7:29, (-165), Bible, NULL
• Goethe (2)
  • IN: Infernal Devices (1986) Steampunk, Science Fiction, Adventure fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: All comfort in life is based upon a regular occurrence of external phenomena.
    FROM: From my Life: Poetry and Truth, (1833), Book, Germany
• John Symonds (1)
  • IN: Fiendish Schemes (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Dead on their sence fall marches hymeneal, Triumphal odes, hymns, symphonies sonorous; They crave one shrill vibration, tense, ideal, Transcending and surpassing the world's chorus.
    FROM: The Vanishing Point, (1882), Poem, UK
• H. G. Wells (1)
  • IN: Morlock Night (1979) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "… and another – a quiet, shy man with a beard – whom I didn't know, and who, as far as my observation went, never opened his mouth all the evening.
    FROM: The Time Machine, (1895), Novel, UK
• Frank Wysbar (1)
  • IN: The Kingdom of Shadows (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Du Seele bist dem Lichte gleich, Das himmelwarts die Heimat ahnt Und, kampfend mit dem Schattenreich, Sich doch zu Gott die Wege bahnt… Soul, you are like the Light That senses its home to be heavenwards And, battling with the kingdom of shadows, Yet makes its way to God…
    FROM: Frank Wysbar (1899-1967), “The Ferryman’s Song” from the film Fahrmann Maria (1936), (1936), Song, Germany
• George Chapman (1)
  • IN: The Kingdom of Shadows (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Betwixt the press of shadows and the blood…
    FROM: George Chapman (c. 1559 – 1634), trans. (1616), The Odyssey, Book XI, (1616), NULL, UK
• William Shakespeare (1)
  • IN: Noir (1998) Science Fiction, Speculative fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You take my life When you do take the means whereby I live.
    FROM: The Merchant of Venice (1597), Act IV, Scene I, (1600), Play, UK
• James Joyce (1)
  • IN: Noir (1998) Science Fiction, Speculative fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: … there’s nothing like a kiss long and hot down to your soul almost paralyses you…
    FROM: Molly Bloom’s soliloquy from Ulysses (1922), (1922), Novel, Ireland
• Paul Johnson (1)
  • IN: Noir (1998) Science Fiction, Speculative fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: But, at this birth of the modern world, roamed by predatory men armed with increasingly effective means of killing and traveling at speeds which accelerated each year, most assaults on nature went unheeded, and crimes against humanity remained unpunished. The world was becoming one, the wilderness was being drawn into a single world commercial system, but there was as yet no acknowledged law. Who was to play the world policeman?
    FROM: The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830 (HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 1991), (1991), NULL, US