The cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Throw a stick, and the servile dog wheezes and pants and shambles to bring it to you. Do the same before a… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that is seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilized… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Zoologists seem to consider the cerebration of cats and dogs about 50-50 -- but my respect always goes to the cool, sure,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The real lover of cats is one who demands a clearer adjustment to the universe than ordinary household platitudes provide; one who… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
No breed of cats in its proper condition can by any stretch of the imagination be thought of as even slightly ungraceful… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality - the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“For the cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see. He is the soul of antique Aegyptus, and… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
It is the night-black Massachusetts legendry which packs the really macabre "kick". Here is material for a really profound study in group-neuroticism; for certainly,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share
“Sounds—possibly musical—heard in the night from other worlds or realms of being.” — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share
Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share
It's not a bad idea to call this Cthulhuism & Yog-Sothothery of mine "The Mythology of Hastur" - although it was really from Machen… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share
The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share
There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share
Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain strong impressions (involving the elements… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share
Thus I began my systematic though half-bewildered tour of Innsmouth's narrow, shadow-blighted ways. Crossing the bridge and turning toward the roar of the lower… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share
Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals - for all that is admirable in man is the… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share
“How little does the earth self know life and its extent! How little, indeed, ought it to know for its own tranquility!” — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share
The trees grew too thickly, and their trunks were too big for any healthy New England wood. There was too much silence in the… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share
Plots may be simple or complex, but suspense, and climactic progress from one incident to another, are essential. Every incident in a fictional work… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share
Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races and is crystallised in the most archaic ballads, chronicles, and sacred… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share
Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share
