“Here cosmic sin had entered, and festered by unhallowed rites had commenced the grinning march of death that was to rot us… — 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
“No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a loss of identity. - Through the Gates… — 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
“I have an odd craving to whisper about those few frightful hours in that ill-rumoured and evilly shadowed seaport of death and… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“You have been my friend in the cosmos; you have been my only friend on this planet - the only soul to… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Certainly, the terror of a deserted house swells in geometrical rather than arithmetical progression as houses multiply to form a city of… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“I have seen beyond the bounds of infinity and drawn down daemons from the stars. . . . I have harnessed the… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Fear best lends itself to the creation of Nature-defying illusions.” — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
