“She was slender, and wonderfully graceful. Except that her movements were languid—very languid—indeed, there was nothing in her appearance to indicate an invalid.”
damsel in distress
“I was under the spell, and the wonderful part is that, even at the time, I perfectly knew I was. But I gave myself up to it; it was an antidote to any pain, and I had more pains than one.”
one winged angel
“Behold my true form, and despair!”
she who sleeps with wolves
“See! sweet and sound she sleeps in granny’s bed, between the paws of the tender wolf.”
aloof dark haired girl
“Hair black like night, skin white as snow…”
fair ghost of a girl in white dress
“The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.”
woman scorned
“He’d go out every night looking for himself… and on the way… he found Ruth, Gladys, Rosemary…and Irving. I guess you can say we broke up because of artistic differences. He saw himself as alive — and I saw him dead!”
mad scientist
“I beheld the wretch — the miserable monster whom I had created.”
succubi
“O, father dear, I dreamed last night a man sat on me bed, And I fear, when I awoke I could not find my maidenhead”.
vengeful ghost
a vengeful ghost or vengeful spirit is said to be the spirit of a deceased person who returns from the afterlife to seek revenge for a cruel, unnatural or unfair death.
naïve newcomer
“O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in’t!”
lady in red
“According to Chinese mythology, a woman who dies in a red dress, or commits suicide in one, is able to come back to haunt those who wronged her.”
occult detective
“I walk my path alone… who would walk with me?”
bookworm
“Evelyn: Look, I… I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker, or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell, but I am proud of what I am.
Rick: And what is that?
Evelyn: I… am a librarian.”
the ingenue
“True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers, But found in the soul within.”
apocalypse maiden
“My very existence is a threat to all life to the universe! And I don’t even know it!”
possessed by demons
“Perhaps it has always been there, this thing, this demon inside me. Or behind my back, waiting for me to turn around.”
damphyr
“They are a prime example of Hybrid Power.”
broken bird
“My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.”
vain sorceress
“If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that—for that—I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!”