The Light That Failed by Rudyard Kipling: “I was reading it to Maisie the other day from The City of Dreadful Night.”
John Barleycorn by Jack London: “He destroys birth and death, and dissipates to mist the paradox of being, until his victim cries out, as in "The City of Dreadful Night": "Our life's a cheat, our death a black abyss."”