No ghost in all the long histories of ghosts has ever hurt anyone physically. The only damage done is by the victim to himself. […] 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.

Not one of us, even after last night, can say the word "ghost" without a littleinvoluntary smile. No, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks wheremodern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor ofsuperstition and have no substitute defense.

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.

Well," she asked, "how do you gentlemen like living in a haunted house?""It's perfectly fine," Luke said, "perfectly fine. It gives me an excuse to have a drink in the middle of the night.

Everything is worse...if you think something is looking at you.

…Silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.