“Fear best lends itself to the creation of Nature-defying illusions.” — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions. Horror” — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“It was just a colour out of space—a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it;… — 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… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Hei! Aa-shanta 'nygh! You are off! Send back earth's gods to their haunts on unknown Kadath, and pray to all space that… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“For the purpose of securing epithets at once accurate and felicitous, the young author should familiarize himself thoroughly with the general aspect… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“I cannot even hint what it was like, for it was a compound of all that is unclean, uncanny, unwelcome, abnormal, and… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“This night shalt thou know the favour of the Gods, and behold on Parnassus those dreams which the Gods have through ages… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“It was a godless sound; one of those low-keyed, insidious outrages of Nature which are not meant to be. To call it… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Poor devils! After all, they were not evil things of their kind. They were the men of another age and another order… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“life, matter, and vitality, as the earth knows such things, are not necessarily constant; and that time and space do not exist… — 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… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“A certain atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; and there must be a hint, expressed… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“They worshipped, so they said, the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who came to 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
