pale horse

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Among those paying tribute on Twitter was the screenwriter and television producer Sarah Phelps, known for her work on EastEnders and BBC serial adaptations, including Agatha Christie’s The Witness For the Prosecution, The ABC Murders and The Pale Horse, as well as of JK Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy.

From The Guardian

Then Death shows up fourth on his pale horse followed by — just to be clear where this whole thing is heading — Hades, and they are “given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine, and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.”

From Los Angeles Times

Those among you who are familiar with the strange realm of UFOlogy may know about William Cooper, one of the most outrageous figures to appear on the UFO lecture circuit in the 1980s and author of the 1991 underground bestseller "Behold a Pale Horse."

From Salon

The Maxwell book is a good example, but also, in Katherine Anne Porter’s Pale Horse, Pale Rider, she is haunted in her dreams.

From Slate

The plague in Death in Venice is an avatar of death in general, the terrible mystery, the pale horse; it is something that strips away vanity and reveals unpalatable truths.

From The Guardian