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.”

By: Richard Connell

“Your brain against mine. Your woodcraft against mine.”

By: Richard Connell

“Invariably, Mr. Rainsford, invariably they choose the hunt.”

By: Richard Connell

“I had to invent a new animal to hunt,” he said.

By: Richard Connell

“I have but one passion in my life, Mr. Rainsford, and it is the hunt.”

By: Richard Connell

“He is a Cossack,” said the general.