Author: Peter Tremayne

Cites

• Bible (10)
  • IN: Suffer Little Children (1995) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing concealed that shall not be revealed; and nothing hidden that shall not be known.
    FROM: Bible, Matthew, 10:26, (100), Bible, NULL
  • IN: Act of Mercy (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I will rejoice and be glad in Thy mercy for Thou hast seen my affliction and hast cared for me in my disaster.
    FROM: Bible, Psalm XXXI. 7, (-165), Bible, NULL
  • IN: The Subtle Serpent (1996) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.
    FROM: Bible, Genesis 3:1, (-165), Bible, NULL
  • IN: Valley of the Shadow (1998) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow, I will fear no evil, for You are with me, Your staff and crook are my comfort.
    FROM: Bible, Psalm 23, (-165), Bible, NULL
  • IN: The Leper's Bell (2004) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: habebit vestimenta dissuta caput nudumos vesta contectum contaminatum ac sordidum se clamabit, omnu tempore quo leprosus est et immundus solus extra castra. And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean. As long as he has the infection he remains unclean. He must live alone: he must live outside the city.
    FROM: Bible, Leviticus 13: 45-6, (-165), Bible, NULL
  • IN: Smoke in the Wind (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: God arises and his enemies are scattered; those who hate him flee before him, driven away like smoke in the wind. .
    FROM: Bible, Psalm 68, (-165), Bible, NULL
  • IN: Behold a Pale Horse (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and the name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him …
    FROM: Bible, Revelation 6:8, (100), Bible, NULL
  • IN: The Devil's seal (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: . affuit inter eos etiam Satan. Cui dixit Dominus: Unde venis? Qui respondens, ait: Circuivi terram, et perambulavi eam. . . and Satan came also among them. The Lord said unto him: Where do you come from? Answering, he said: I have circled the Earth, and walked around on it.
    FROM: Bible, Job 1:6–7 Vulgate Latin translation of Jerome 4th century, (-165), Bible, NULL
  • IN: Atonement of Blood (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: uia anima carnis in sanguine est et ego dedi illum vobis ut super altare in eo expietis pro animabus vestris et sanguis pro animae piaculo sit. For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
    FROM: Bible, Leviticus 17:11 Vulgate Latin translation of Jerome 4th century, (-165), Bible, NULL
• Charles Dickens (1)
  • IN: The Fiery Devil (None) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A curse upon the fiery devil, thundering along so smoothly. . He loitered about the station, waiting until one should stay to call there; and when one did, and was detached for water, he stood parallel with it, watching its huge wheels and brazen front and thinking what a cruel power and might it held. Ugh! To see the great wheels slowly turning and to think of being run down and crushed!
    FROM: Chapter 55, Dombey and Son, (1848), Novel, UK
• William Shakespeare (2)
  • IN: Fear No More (None) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Fear no more the heat o’ the sun, Nor the furious winter’s rages; Thou the worldly task has done, Home art gone, and ta’en thy wages…
    FROM: Cymbeline Act IV, Scene 2,, (1611), Play, UK
  • IN: An Ensuing Evil and Others (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Good things of day begin to droop and drowse; While night’s black angels to their preys do rouse.
    FROM: Macbeth, Act III, Scene ii, (1623), Play, UK
• Solon of Athens (1)
  • IN: The Spider's Web (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Laws are like spider’s webs: if some poor weak creature come up against them, it is caught; but a bigger one can break through and get away
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Greece
• Lucius Annaeus Seneca ‘The Younger’ (1)
  • IN: Our Lady of Darkness (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Darkness brings our fears to light rather than banishes them.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Italy
• St Patrick (1)
  • IN: Badger's Moon (2003) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: May no demons, no ill, no calamity or terrifying dreams Disturb our rest, our willing, prompt repose.
    FROM: An Evening Prayer, ascribed to St Patrick, 5th century, (450), Religious Text, Ireland
• Mary Elizabeth Frye (1)
  • IN: The Haunted Abbot (2002) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Do not stand at my grave and weep. I am not there, I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow, I am the diamond glints on snow. I am the sunlight on ripened grain, I am the gentle autumn’s rain. When you awaken in the morning’s hush, I am the swift uplifting rush Of quiet birds in circled flight. I am the stars that shine at night. Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there, I did not die …
    FROM: Do not stand at my grave and weep, (1932), Poem, US
• Juvenal (1)
  • IN: The Dove of Death (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas. The censor (magistrate) forgives the crows but blames the doves.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Italy
• NULL (1)
  • IN: The Council of the Cursed (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: AD670:…et ad sacrosanctum concilium Autunium, Luna in sanguinem uersa est.
    FROM: Chronicon Regum Francorum et Gothorum, (None), NULL, NULL
• Na (1)
  • IN: The Council of the Cursed (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: AD670:…and at the sacred Council of Autun, the Moon became the colour of blood.
    FROM: Chronicle of the Kings of the Franks and Goths, (None), NULL, Denmark/Southern Sweden
• Plato (1)
  • IN: The Dove of Death (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Non semper ea sunt quae videntur. Things are not always what they appear to be.
    FROM: Phaedrus, (-370), Book, Greece