By: Arthur Conan Doyle

“The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply.”

By: Harry Houdini

Its locomotion was so inexplicable that I stared in fascination.

By: Harry Houdini

I would not look at the marching things.

By: Harry Houdini

I felt an element of terror beyond all the known terrors of earth.

By: Harry Houdini

A memory of stark hideousness which nothing else in my life can parallel.

By: Harry Houdini

I vainly tried to fight off a menace desperate and ineluctable.

By: Harry Houdini

The first step was to get free of my bonds, gag, and blindfold.

By: Harry Houdini

It was the ecstasy of nightmare and the summation of the fiendish.

By: Harry Houdini

He gathered a select and formidable band of congenial cutthroats.

By: Harry Houdini

The smile of the Sphinx vaguely displeased us.

By: Harry Houdini

There are unpleasant tales of the Sphinx.

By: Harry Houdini

Abdul led us among such wonders as we had before only read and dreamed of.

By: Richard Connell

Rainsford hesitated. He heard the hounds.

By: Richard Connell

He knew his pursuer was coming.

By: Richard Connell

“I must keep my nerve. I must keep my nerve.”