“Wonder had gone away, and he had forgotten that life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Kuranes had not lingered, but had plodded on as though summoned toward some goal. He dared not disobey the summons for fear… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Whilst they strove to strip from life its embroidered robes of myth, and to shew in naked ugliness the foul thing that… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“A horrible coma call'd living So now in this coma call'd living I view the bright phantoms of beauty; The false hollow… — 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
“Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“life, matter, and vitality, as the earth knows such things, are not necessarily constant; and that time and space do not exist… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Transferring in haste, I felt a curious breathlessness as the cars rumbled on through the early afternoon sunlight into territories I had… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“The Silver Key: I. In the first days of his bondage he had turned to the gentle churchly faith endeared to him… — 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
