Dr. Vitus Verdegast : Do you mind if I keep this door open? Peter Allison : I'd sleep in a cold sweat if you didn't. You know... this is a very tricky house. The kind of place where I'd like to have company.

Peter Allison : Strange about the cat. Joan seemed so curiously affected when you killed it.

Peter Allison : This is a very interesting house you have here, Herr Poelzig. Has an atmosphere... kind of uh... Dr. Vitus Verdegast : It is indeed hard to describe. As hard to describe as life... or death? It might well be an atmosphere of death. This place was built upon the ruins of the same Ft. Marmorus that our unfortunate friend, the driver, described so vividly. Herr Poelzig commanded Marmorus during the last years of the war. He is perhaps sentimental about this spot.

Peter Allison : If I wanted to build a nice, cozy, unpretentious insane asylum, he'd be the man for it.

Peter Allison : I don't know. It all sounds like a lot of supernatural baloney to me. Dr. Vitus Verdegast : Supernatural, perhaps. Baloney, perhaps not. There are many things under the sun.