I recognise a distinction between dream life and real life, between appearances and actualities. I confess to an over-powering desire to know… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
More wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of the ocean. Blue, green,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The ignorant and the deluded are, I think, in a strange way to be envied. That which is not known of does… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
We love kitties, gawd bless their little whiskers, and we don't give a damn whether they or we are superior or inferior!… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
All I want is to know things. The black gulph of the infinite is before me. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The unknown ... became for our primitive forefathers a terrible and omnipotent source of boons and calamities visited upon mankind for cryptic… — 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 Image
“Sounds—possibly musical—heard in the night from other worlds or realms of being.” — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
