In the dark places of your mind there was always the echo of a phrase recalling inhuman sayings about flesh, power, control, eternity and infernal. You knew that Hell existed somewhere on a dying cyclopean planet whirling around a distant star, Beta Persei, also called the Demon Star, near Fomalhaut, one of the brightest stars in the sky.
(paraphrasing from a book of Joseph Armstead)