H.P. Lovecraft

“Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“Gradually and mistily it became apparent that the Most Ancient One was holding something—some object clutched in the outflung folds of his…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“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

“I felt the strangling tendrils of a cancerous horror whose roots reached into illimitable pasts and fathomless abysms of the night that…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“Some of them stole off to those cryptical realms which are known only to cats and which villagers say are on the…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“I have seen beyond the bounds of infinity and drawn down daemons from the stars. . . . I have harnessed the…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“For those who relish speculation regarding the future, the tale of supernatural horror provides an interesting field.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

“Nothing is so intimately a part of a man as his library. It contains just what the possessor wants to look at…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“I saw the sun peering redly through the last gusts of a little sandstorm that hovered over the nameless city, and marked…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“Sheehan's Pool Room, which adorns one of the lesser alleys in the heart of Chicago's stockyard district, is not a nice place.…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“Whatever universal masterpiece of tomorrow may be wrought from phantasm or terror will owe its acceptance rather to a supreme workmanship than…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“Wise men told him his simple fancies were inane and childish, and even more absurd because their actors persist in fancying them…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“an' when they git ready... I say, when they git... ever hear tell of a shoggoth? 'Hey, d'ye hear me? I tell…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“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

“We shall dive down through black abysses...and in that lair of the Deep Ones we shall dwell amidst wonder and glory forever.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

“Yet when I looked from that highest of all gable windows, looked while the candles sputtered and the insane viol howled with…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“forests of monsterous overnourished oaks with serpent roots twisting and sucking unnamable juices from an earth verminous with millions of cannible devils;…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“As for the Republicans -- how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“Whilst they strove to strip from life its embroidered robes of myth, and to shew in naked ugliness the foul thing that…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“Shreiking, slithering, torrential shadows of red viscous madness chasing one another through endless, ensanguinated condors of purple fulgurous sky... formless phantasms and…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“Throw a stick, and the servile dog wheezes and pants and stumbles to bring it to you. Do the same before a…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“having been jostled by a nautical-looking negro who had come from one of the queer dark courts on the precipitous hillside which…

— H.P. Lovecraft