When you can hear a spider walk across the floor, you know it’s time to keep your socks on. Thank God for insecticide.
May the merciful god, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when no power of the will, or drug that the cunning of man devises, can keep me from the chasm of sleep. Death is merciful, for there i...
Calm, lasting beauty comes only in dream, and this solace the world had thrown away when in its worship of the real it threw away the secrets of childhood and innocence.
Her laughter was like sweet deadly venom.
I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness.
I have said that I dwelt apart from the visible world, but I have not said that I dwelt alone.
I'll tell you something of the forbidden horrors she led me into - something of the age-old horrors that even now are festering in out-of-the-way corners with a few monstrous priests to keep them aliv...
It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
It is absurd to say that mathematicians have not discovered the fourth dimension.
It was in mid-summer, when the alchemy of Nature transmutes the sylvan landscape to one vivid and almost homogeneous mass of green; when the senses are well-nigh intoxicated with the surging seas of m...
Non è morto ciò che può vivere in eterno,E in strani eoni anche la morte può morire.
There are so many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as m...
Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness. Wretched is he who looks back upon lone hours in vast and dismal chambers with brown hangings and maddening rows of antique...
I say alone, for one who sits by a sleeper is indeed alone; perhaps more alone than he can realise.
In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.
It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be left alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and bla...
It was the eldritch scurrying of those fiend-born rats, always questing for new horrors, and determined to lead me on even unto those grinning caverns of earth’s centre where Nyarlathotep, the mad fac...
That is what they say I said when they found me in the blackness after three hours; found me crouching in the blackness over the plump, half-eaten body of Capt. Norrys, with my own cat leaping and tea...
There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range.
What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men.
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