"We have a responsibility to give aid and solace to those unfortunate souls who are suffering in the void between the living and the dead" (p. 1).

"An insidious growth that, given time, would consume every inch of my once smooth, unblemished skin, covering it with red, scaly bumps. That oozed, by the way" (p. 2).

"She said it the way the Wicked Witch of the West said it to the winged monkeys when she sent them out to kill Dorothy and her little dog, too" (p. 14).

"And when my instincts tell me to do something, I usually obey. I have often found it beneficial to my health" (p. 94).

"They made the person in it look all distorted - kind of like Mr. Beaumont's face with the light from the aquarium all over it" (p. 103).

"He didn't, I noticed after a while, crumble into dust the way vampires on TV...