Let's start.

He's coming." At the whisper Buck turned a livid face; one could see him gather his strength.
"I stick," he said with difficulty, as though his lips were numb.
"She'll need me now." Lee Haines stood in a moment's indecision but then settled back in his chair and gripped his hands together.

They both sat watching the door as if the darkness were a magnet of inescapable horror.

Only Joan, of all in that room, showed no fear after the first moment.

Her face was blanched indeed, but she tilted it up now, smiling; she stole towards the door, but Kate caught the child and gathered her close with strangling force.