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Quote #10
"I knew that was it. A power of darkness. To put such a curse upon a home! It lurks there always. (60)
The man with the shades, unlike the narrator, calls fear a "power of darkness." Although fear was already personified in the narrator’s description, the old man’s use of the supernatural-sounding (and very Gothic) phrase makes it even clearer that fear is an active evil. It also brings out the tight connection between the fear the narrator was feeling and the literal "darkness" against which he fought in the red room. This is a great wrap up for the story.