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| 18 | 284 | To my View more quotes about horror">horror I heard something behind the door fumbling with a bolt. |
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| 18 | 281 | Suddenly there was a wild cry from behind the door, of almost maniacal intensity, and I thought I heard something moving on the stones behind it, uncontrollable, clawed. |
| 18 | 282 | "Go!" cried the second guard. |
| 18 | 283 | "Go!" "But it is not a serious wound," I said, pinching it a bit, letting some blood move from it, trickling down my forearm. |
| 18 | 284 | To my horror I heard something behind the door fumbling with a bolt. |
| 18 | 285 | It seemed to draw it open, and then, wildly, to thrust it back, keeping the door locked; and then I heard the bolt rattling in its brackets as though something had seized it and trembling was trying to hold it in place. |
| 18 | 286 | The door I then realized had been locked on the inside, and could be opened from the inside. |
| 18 | 287 | There was another wild, eerie cry, an uncanny almost demented roaring noise, and the bolt on the other side was dashed free of the door, and the two guards, with a cry of fear, hurled the beams in the two brackets, fastening the door, which was made to swing outward, shut. |