Pollepel Island and Storm King

Storm King mountain:
"Rough and hungry boy, barely nineteen, that first time Silas Desvernine saw the Storm King, laid bright young eyes to raw granite and green rash rising up and up above the river and then lost again in the Hudson morning mist."

 
 

The island:
"And Pollepel Island like a footnote to so much time, little scar in this big wound of a place."

 

The Castle on Pollepel:
"Modest monstrosity, second-hand Gothic borrowed from his memory of something glimpsed on a bsiness trip to Scotland, augmented with the architect's taste for English Tudor..."
 
 

 
 

Quotes from "Estate," Tales of Pain and Wonder.
Copyright © 1997 by Caitlín R. Kiernan.