Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any way hampered by the presence of books.

There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a long time, and it was going to take a while to clean them out.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

It was one of those winter days that suddenly dream of spring, when the sky is blue and soft and clear, and the wind has dropped its voice and whispers instead of screaming, and the sun is out and the trees look surprised, and over everything there is the faintest, palest tint of green.

I wonder if I could eat a child if I had the chance.' 'I doubt if I could cook one,' said Constance.

No, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor of superstition and have no substitute defense.

February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer.