He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision—he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath—"The horror! The horror!"
Many works, both literary and in film, have been influenced by this work. The historical link of this work is the pillage and atrocities done by King Leopold II of Belgium in Congo Free State. In the novella, Charlie Marlowe narrated how he was hired to go to Congo and captain a steamer to find Mr. Kurtz. And in his travel in the Congo River, from the Central Station to the Inner Station, he saw the horror of the Belgian colonial rule.