pitch-weighted

Updated: July 13, 2026

Almost I fancy at times that there is life lurking in the eyeless sockets, where the red firelight from the pitch-weighted logs plays in grewsome flashes; and I fancy, too, that in the brainless cavities of the skull there must still be some of the old passion, stirred into spirit life by the very madness of this night.

James Oliver Curwood - Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest mounted Police