"...the Lot's knowledge of the country's torment was academic. Time went on a different schedule there. Nothing too na…"

"I think that house might be Hubert Marsten's monument to evil, a kind of psychic sounding board. A supernatural beaco…"

"And if there are no cars or planes, and if no one's Uncle John is out in the wood lot west of town banging away at a …"

"Understand death? Sure. That was when the monsters got you."

"Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and he…"

"And you couldn't explain that to your mother and father, who were creatures of the light. No more than you could expl…"

"Before drifting away entirely, he found himself reflecting — not for the first time — on the peculiarity of adults. T…"

"The night before, Matt Burke had faced such a dark thing and had been stricken by a heart seizure brought on by frigh…"

"No one pronounced Jerusalem's Lot dead on the morning of October 6; no one knew it was. Like the bodies of the previo…"

"We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things. The only reason we didn’t set up hot-dog stands in the …"