After breakfast I spent an hour cleaning my revolver and trying my skill at a target. Jane shook her head, probably thinking that bullets were vain against demonic powers. But Perdita was hugely delighted with the shining little instrument and wanted it for a plaything; women of all ages will play with death! ("Absolute Evil")
Julian Hawthorne, American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps
death, guns, pistol, revolver, women