No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
There were nameless horrors abroad; and no matter how little one might be able to get at them, one ought tp stand… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I have seen the dark universe yawning Where the black planets roll without aim, Where they roll in their horror unheeded, Without… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
There now ensued a series of incidents which transported me to the opposite extremes of ecstasy and horror; incidents which I tremble… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I shall never sleep calmly again when I think of the horrors that lurk ceaselessly behind life in time and in space,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
It is in dreams that I have known the real clutch of stark, hideous, maddening, paralysing fear. My infant nightmares were classics,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
After man there would be the mighty beetle civilisation, the bodies of whose members the cream of the Great Race would seize… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
In my actual imaginative contact with life, I am vastly more responsive to beauty than to horror - indeed, I never experience… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
One can't write a weird story of real power without perfect psychological detachment from the human scene, and a magic prism of… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“When the last days were upon me, and the ugly trifles of existence began to drive me to madness like the small… — 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
