Recently the topic of the proper use of semi-colons came up, what with Eats Shoots and Leaves ...
I found this gem of an example by a great master of horror, at the same website where the Cryptoquote game resides --
www.eastoftheweb.com -- under the short stories, which I do quite enjoy to browse.
Here is just one snippet. Courtesy of the awesome Ambrose Bierce.
"The Damned Thing"
I: One Does Not Always Eat What is on the Table
By the light of a tallow candle which had been placed on one end of a rough table a man was reading something written in a book. It was an old account book, greatly worn; and the writing was not, apparently, very legible, for the man sometimes held the page close to the flame of the candle to get a stronger light on it. The shadow of the book would then throw into obscurity a half of the room, darkening a number of faces and figures; for besides the reader, eight other men were present. Seven of them sat against the rough log walls, silent, motionless, and the room being small, not very far from the table. By extending an arm anyone of them could have touched the eighth man, who lay on the table, face upward, partly covered by a sheet, his arms at his sides. He was dead.
