In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly… — 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
Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his… — 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
Zoologists seem to consider the cerebration of cats and dogs about 50-50 -- but my respect always goes to the cool, sure,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. — 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
A page of Addison or of Irving will teach more of style than a whole manual of rules, whilst a story of… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I am well-nigh resolv'd to write no more tales but merely to dream when I have a mind to, not stopping to… — 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
After man there would be the mighty beetle civilisation, the bodies of whose members the cream of the Great Race would seize… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The very fact that religions are not content to stand on their own feet, but insist on crippling or warping the flexible… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Every limited mind demands a certain freedom of expression, and the man who cannot express himself satisfactorily without the stimulation derived from… — 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
