“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 sometimes on the hindmost pair only, using the others to convey large objects of indeterminate nature.… — 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
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
