I love to dream, but I never try to dream and think at the same time. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Maybe, just maybe, I should not have used the word "eldritch" so many times now that I think about it. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely. — 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
No one ever wrote a story yet without some real emotional drive behind it--and I have not that drive except where violations… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Religion as a vital issue is dead except on paper, and whatever beauty-baiting the future may witness will be the work of… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The reason why time plays a great part in so many of my tales is that this element looms up in my… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
My opinion of my whole experience varies from time to time. In broad daylight, and at most seasons I am apt to… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain strong impressions (involving… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Mid-summer ... when the alchemy of Nature transmutes the sylvan landscape to one vivid and almost homogeneous mass of green; when the… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
You see them? You see the things that float and flop about you and through you ever moment of your life? You… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Time, space, and natural law hold for me suggestions of intolerable bondage, and I can form no picture of emotional satisfaction which… — 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
