“I felt the strangling tendrils of a cancerous horror whose roots reached into illimitable pasts and fathomless abysms of the night that… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“When the stars were right, They could plunge from world to world through the sky; but when the stars were wrong, They… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I should not hope to convey in mere words the unutterable hideousness that can dwell in absolute silence and barren immensity.” — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“For the things in the chair, perfect to the last, subtle detail of microscopic resemblance - or identity - were the face… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“If we knew what we are, we should do as Sir Arthur Jermyn did; and Arthur Jermyn soaked himself in oil and… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions. Horror” — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“I have looked upon all that the universe has to hold of horror, and even the skies of spring and the flowers… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“It was just a colour out of space—a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it;… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Would to Heaven we had never approached them at all, but had run back at top speed out of that blasphemous tunnel… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“He talked about terrible meetings in lonely places, of cyclopean ruins in the heart of the Maine woods beneath which vast staircases… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“When I drew nigh the nameless city I knew it was accursed. I was travelling in a parched and terrible valley under… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“A certain atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; and there must be a hint, expressed… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“a new chill from afar out whither the condor had flown, as if my flesh had caught a horror before my eyes had seen… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share
“One can trace the relics of this former happiness in the trim shapes of the buildings, the occasional graceful churches, and the evidences of… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share
“many pairs of legs and with two great bat-like wings in the middle of the back. They sometimes walked on all their legs, and… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share
“Calm, lasting beauty comes only in dream, and this solace the world had thrown away when in its worship of the real it threw… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share
“It’s hard to have done all one’s growing up since 33 — but that’s a damn sight better than not growing up at all.” — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share
“By noon Carter reached the jasper terraces of Kiran which slope down to the river's edge and bear that temple of loveliness wherein the… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share
“The vast marble dome of the State House stood out in massive silhouette, its crowning statue haloed fantastically by a break in one of… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share
“On many occasions the curious atmospheric effects enchanted me vastly; these including a strikingly vivid mirage - the first I had ever seen -… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share
“Heaven knows where I'll end up - it's a safe bet I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share
“Our apprehensions were over what we might find, or fail to find, at the end of our journey; for silence continued to answer all… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share
“What we heard was not the fabulous note of any buried blasphemy of elder earth from whose supernal toughness an age-denied polar sun had… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share
“The Lurking Fear: Shrieking, slithering, torrential shadows of red viscous madness chasing one another through endless, ensanguined condors of purple fulgurous sky... formless phantasms… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share
