Just as all that appears imperishable tends toward its own destruction, those moments that at the time seem the most fleeting recreate themselves - not only in my memory (which in the final accounting loses nothing) but in the throbbing of my heart and the prickling of my hair, making themselves new just as our Commonwealth reconstitutes itself each morning in the shrill tones of its own clarions

While reading night before last, a sudden deep sound came as if a large body had fallen either in the attic or woodshed & had shaken the house. Feeling rather ''eerie'', we stalked in various directions & with prickling hair

gooseflesh and prickling hair

On more than one occasion I was given the distinct sensation of goose bumps or prickling
hair on the back of my neck because of the creepy feeling

''Though neither the most popular nor the most influential
author in the sf field, Gene Wolfe is today quite possibly
the most important. The inherent stature of his work is
deeply impressive and he wears the fictional worlds of sf
like a coat of many colors.''

It was the first significant demonstration of the great
difficulty of reading Gene Wolfe without constant
attention to the almost subliminal - but in retrospect or
after re-reading almost ivariably lucid and inevitable -
clues laid down in the text to govern its comprehension.''

''...an author who has never in his life told a straightforward tale,
an author who has never in his life published an inadvertent word.''

''As a piece of literature, this work is simply overwhelming.
And mind you, as craftmanship and as literature, what we're
talking about are attributes that are world-class as prose, not
'just' as SF; we are in no further need of proof that 'genre'
SF is not essentially limited to genre standards. There's no
question any longer but that all we were waiting for was
practitioners smart enough and gifted enough.''

(''Seven Skilled Gentlemen'')