"The gray light of early morning brings no relief."  From Dark Shadows episode 5.

"When a grizzly charges."  From The Instructor, 1957.

"You see, the gods told him the secret magic number of the universe, the number which unlocks all the rules that bind you mortals to your daily dull lives.  The number is whispered so deeply into the soul that no one can remember it without using the magic."  From Dark Shadows episode 358.

[Tidbits gathered through the course of our research.]

A surrealist, dadaistic, even post-contemplationist spoof of slow-moving Gothic soap operas of the 1970s, from the minds of Jonathan Caws-Elwitt and Prof. Oddfellow: it's Grave Mood Rings, a weird intersection in the universe of Penetralia.

"I know that sounds tactless, but I said it deliberately."  From Dark Shadows episode 463.

Fly with us up and down Ober Mountain in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

"Peter Puck wants to know if men of letters are men of few words."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1930.

From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.

"Why not dance a voodoo dance around a hospital table, chanting semi-guttural noises."  From Dark Shadows, episode 167.

It's good to see brackets that resemble human face silhouettes.  From The Psychology of the Salem Witchcraft Excitement of 1692, and Its Practical Application to Our Own Time by George Beard, 1882.

From Woroni, 1953.  See also Bullet Lists.

From The Bombay Chronicle, 1950.

From The Thousand-Yard Stare by James Soular, 1997.

"Maybe nothing.  Maybe everything."  From Dark Shadows episode 154.

The author here admits to being wholly unqualified to write about Mexico, having spent little time there and having failed to study its history, geography, language, art, archaeology, philosophy, or economics.  From Notes For A Book About Mexico by Howard Vincent O’Brien, 1937.

"Get rid of 'tiredness.'"  From The Bombay Chronicle, 1946.

A Ouija board under a prayer book to keep it quiet.  From The [Niles, California] Township Register, 1927.  See The Care & Feeding of a Spirit Board.