By: Joshua Glenn

From GEEK LOVE and LONDON FIELDS to GHOST IN THE SHELL

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: Joshua Glenn

From MONA LISA OVERDRIVE to FOUCAULT’S PENDULUM

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: Joshua Glenn

From CONSIDER PHLEBAS to THE BLACK DAHLIA

By: Richard Connell

He knew his pursuer was coming.

By: Richard Connell

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

By: Joshua Glenn

From THE REVERSE OF THE MEDAL to HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE

By: Richard Connell

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

By: Richard Connell

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