"Can you possibly conceive it. The unendurable oppression of the lungs, the stifling fumes of the Earth, the rigid embrace of the coffin, the blackness of absolute night and the silence, like an overwhelming sea."

"Within the Coffin Lies a Man...Yet ALIVE!"

"Within the Coffin I Lie...ALIVE!"

"Ray Milland — Guy Carrell"

"Heather Angel — Kate Carrell"

"Hazel Court — Emily Gault"

"Alan Napier — Dr. Gideon Gault"

"So, each day science, founded on years of research and truth merges with feats, which put our old fashioned magicians to shame. Aladdin rubbed the lamp and the genie appeared. Today we can press a button, and the whole of mankind is obliterated."

"I do NOT believe."

"Witch or Woman, What Was It?"

"You Must See It From the Beginning To Feel The Shock-Impact of the End!"

"The Most Terrifying Screen Experience of Your Life!"

"Do the undead demons of hell still arise to terrorize the world?"

"Peter Wyngarde — Norman Taylor"

"Janet Blair — Tansy Taylor"

"Margaret Johnston — Flora Carr"

"Anthony Nicholls — Harvey Sawtelle"

"Colin Gordon — Lindsay Carr"

"Kathleen Byron — Evelyn Sawtelle"

"Vincent Price — Joseph Curwen/Charles Dexter Ward"

"Debra Paget — Anne Ward"

"Cathie Merchant — Hester Tillinghast"

"Frank Maxwell — Dr. Marinus Willet/Priam Willet"

"Lon Chaney Jr. — Simon Orne"

"Milton Parsons — Jabez Hutchinson"

"Every time you pick up a grain of sand you hold a universe in the palm of your hand."

"Whatever men do not understand they find unconvincing."

"Now, Mr. Cunningham, do you suppose this garrulous intruder may be a... a swindler, perhaps, an assassin, a charlatan plotting some curious disaster for your town? Such characters exist, but they are secretive rather than mysterious. I, sir, am a major mystery."

"You worry too much. You worry about how I brought my circus to Abalone with wagons. You worry about the future of your town. Or, if the sun will rise a year from today. The answer is to such matters, remain closed behind a curtain. Then, time says, presto! And out they come."

"My dear lady, the role of skeptic becomes you not. There are things in the world not even the experience of a lifetime spent in Abalone could conceive of."

"Mike, the whole world is a circus if you look at it the right way. Every time you pick up a handful of dust, and see not the dust, but a mystery, a marvel, there in your hand, every time you stop and think, "I'm alive, and being alive is fantastic!" Every time such a thing happens, Mike, you are part of the Circus of Dr. Lao."

"Now, come on, Doc! What kind of oriental hocus-pocus is going on around here? A circus with no wagons, no animals, no cages? A crazy old magician? What's it all about?"

"All those stories about me, they're lies. I'm not a bank robber or a cattle rustler, and I've never kicked a woman in the stomach even once, really!"

"Apollonius of Tyana: I only read futures; I don't evaluate them."

"Merlin: Tricks? Gadzooks, Madam, these are not tricks! I do magic. I — I create, I transpose, I transubstantiate, I break up, I recombine — but I never trick!"

"Enter The Fabulous World of Dr. Lao... Whose Wonders Never Cease!"

"Bolt the doors! Lock the windows! Dr. Lao's coming to town!"

"Which face will the wily doctor reveal to you?"

"Tony Randall — Dr. Lao, Apollonius of Tyana, many other roles"

"Barbara Eden — Angela Benedict"

"Kevin Tate — Mike Benedict"

"Arthur O'Connell — Clint Stark"

"John Ericson — Ed Cunningham"