Brush snapped. The stag shambled forth from the outer darkness. It loomed above Scobie, its fur rank and steaming. Black blood oozed from gashes along its flanks. Beneath a great jagged crown of antlers its eyes were black, its teeth yellow and broken. Scobie fell to his knees, palms raised in supplication. The stag nuzzled his matted hair and its long tongue lapped at the muddy tears and the streaks of drying blood upon the man’s upturned face. Its muzzle unhinged. The teeth closed and there was a sound like a ripe cabbage cracking apart. Laird Barron
About This Quote

In 1892, the writer Arthur Conan Doyle published a short story that was based on a real life event. It was titled A Scandal in Bohemia. In this story, the protagonist is a man who is stalked by a stag while he is out hunting one day. The stag is wounded and despite the man's attempts to reason with it, it attacks him and mauls him. The man manages to escape after killing the stag and stumbles home where his wife nurses him back to health.

Source: The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All

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