When fatigue finally forced him to pause, he ordered the men who were left to have their hearts torn out and their carcasses burned

Mere grimness is as easy as grinning; but it requires something to put a handsome face on a story. Narratives become of suspicious merit in proportion as they lean to Newgate-like offenses, particularly of blood and wounds...

...their faces were wholly burned, their eyesockets were hollow, the fluid from their melted eyes had run down their cheeks.

If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.

When you say you’re a fan of the gore, what do you mean?”
“The all supernatural bunch, love. The scarier the merrier.

I was covered in gore, dripping in slime, and in a very bad mood.