Throw a stick, and the servile dog wheezes and pants and shambles to bring it to you. Do the same before a… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
All attempts at gaining literary polish must begin with judicious reading, and the learner must never cease to hold this phase uppermost.… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The man or nation of high culture may acknowledge to great lengths the restraints imposed by conventions and honour, but beyond a… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I am essentially a recluse who will have very little to do with people wherever he may be. I think that most… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The end of a story must be stronger rather than weaker than the beginning, since it is the end which contains the… — 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
