Halloween roamers

Usage examples of phantoms.

Not phantoms these, but big cruisers with heavy batteries of atom-guns along their sides and with the flaring comet-emblem of the Mid-Galactic Empire on their bows.

She looked out with him as the cruiser slowly moved past gigantic battleships, columns of grim cruisers, slim phantoms and destroyers and scouts.

Empire ship reports phantoms near, and then suddenly its report breaks off and the ship drifts silent and disabled.

Its own guns were thundering at the Cloud phantoms that were hanging to it steadily, repeatedly emerging from dark-out to attack.

I knew then that I was on the right way to Ixtlan and that those phantoms were trying to lure me out of my way.

I realized that I had an ally and that there was nothing that the phantoms could do to me.

Other phantoms lurched out swiftly and tried to make me trip over the precipices, but my will was stronger than they were.

He said that the tone of their voices, their eagerness to lure him out, and the manner in which the phantoms talked about food were the clues-and that he knew that because his ally was helping him.

Their inviting presence assured him of safety from the feared phantoms that plagued him.

It was even thought that one could detect cries, sobs, and the monologues of a madman addressing phantoms, some mysterious rendering of worship to the dead who haunted him.