And then a weird apparition marched forth at the head of the procession - a pirate, I thought, if ever a pirate dwelt upon land.

Tarzan, seeking to solve the mystery of the weird apparitions, sprang into the night in the direction of the nearest death's-head.

On through the dusk strode Alfredo Morales, totally oblivious of the weird apparition that had appeared behind him.

Then the weird apparition of the shaman reached up and removed the horned Yak head revealing the small, thin face of a Chinese man in his mid-fifties.

These weird apparitions had been handsome youths, clad in fashionable attire, fifteen minutes before, but now they did not resemble any beings one ever sees unless in nightmares.

His right hand still poised on the sill, the weird apparition twisted his body, pulling it bit by bit out of the narrow opening.

And why frighten them away with tales of the Red Shadows and the weird apparition of Epemitreus, the long-dead prophet?

For in that instant of upward staring, he had seen a weird apparition, a creature that appeared to be a mammoth bat, spreading its mighty wings.

Then came the most weird apparition of all.

"What a weird apparition," she said distastefully.