All of my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and emotions have no validity or significance in… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Certain of Poe's tales possess an almost absolute perfection of artistic form which makes them veritable beacon-lights in the province of the… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false? — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales and do not expect to become a serious competitor of my… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form - and local human passions and conditions… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Write out the story - rapidly, fluently, and not too critically - following the second or narrative-order synopsis. Change incidents and plot… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law - an imaginative escape from… — 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
All my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance… — 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 & Dunsany & others, rather than through the Bierce-Chambers line, that I picked up my gradually developing hash of theogony - or daimonogony. Come to think of it, I guess I sling this stuff more as… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share
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
