Then someone within closed the door, shutting Norah out into the howling dust of the night. The clouds parted briefly to reveal the full moon's cold eye, then closed again. Wind seared over the pavilion's double roof, its voice rising to a shriek. Distantly, among the maze of walls, came the frenzied barking of hundreds of tiny dogs. As she drifted towards wakefulness, Norah could not tell whether it was the wind that she heard just at the end, or whether, within the dark hall, the girl had begun to scream. Barbara Hambly
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In the short story, The Green Carnation, from the collection "Norah" by Joyce Cary, a young woman tries to kill herself. In the middle of her suicide attempt, a group of mentally disturbed children suddenly come into the room and start to torture her to death. She manages to escape them and survives.

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