“There is nothing more harrowing than a deadly hush with the feel of a great noise around it”

“There is nothing so actively alive as the dead.”

“...his eyes lit up and glowed red against the dark bulk of it. A moment they remained so ... then they soared up, phosphorescently opalescent, with a predominance of red, like two sinful dead planets escaping from Hell.”

“It was not a noisy wind but the kind that suggests something very big and thin fresh from the horror of Infinite Space.”

“Breakfast alone by gaslight is about as ghastly as champagne in daylight.”

“It was such a heavenly dream: dreamed between the reality of war and the reality of hereditary madness.”

“I don't care who you were, you're dead now. D-E-A-D; dead! The sooner you accept that you're a shade now the better.Eros could hear one of the men grunt and strain."Senator, let go of that tree. You're going into Hades of I have to drag you all the way there myself.”