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“Most daemoniacal of all shocks is that of the abysmally unexpected and grotesquely unbelievable”

H P Lovecraft Tales Of Horror Hp Lovecraft The Outsider

Book:The Outsider And Others

Source: The Outsider And Others

“Into his mind floated pictures of alien orbs with great stone towers, and other orbs with titan mountains and no mark of life, and still remoter spaces where only a stirring in vague blackness told of the presence of consciousness and will.”

Isolation Desolation Alien Creep H P Lovecraft Tales Of Horror The Haunter Of The Dark

Book:The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3

Source: The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3

“Everything seemed to me tainted with a loathsome contagion, and inspired by a noxious alliance with distorted hidden powers.”

H P Lovecraft Tales Of Horror Hp Lovecraft The Lurking Fear

Author:H.P. Lovecraft

“His drinking, of course, only aggravated what it was meant to alleviate.”

Tales Of Horror Hp Lovecraft In The Vault

Author:H.P. Lovecraft

“Well, I should say that the really weird artist has a kind of vision which makes models, or summons up what amounts to actual scenes from the spectral world he lives in.”

Tales Of Horror Hp Lovecraft Pickman S Model

Author:H.P. Lovecraft

“And to think of today in contrast, with such pale-pink brains that even a club of supposed artists gets shudders and convulsions if a picture goes beyond the feelings of a Beacon Street tea-table! The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.”

Tales Of Horror Hp Lovecraft Pickman S Model

Author:H.P. Lovecraft

“Ever new seemed this deathless city of vision, for here time has no power to tarnish or destroy.”

Tales Of Horror Hp Lovecraft

Author:H.P. Lovecraft

“The darkness always teemed with unexplained sound-and yet he sometimes shook with fear lest the noises he heard should subside and allow him to hear certain other, fainter noises which he suspected were lurking behind them.”

Fear Sound Lurking H P Lovecraft Tales Of Horror The Dreams In The Witch House

Book:The Dreams in the Witch House

Source: The Dreams in the Witch House

“And beyond all else he glimpsed an infinite gulf of sheer darkness, where solid and semi-solid forms were known only by their windy stirrings, and cloudy patterns of force seemed to superimpose order on chaos and hold forth a key to all the paradoxes and arcana of the worlds we know.”

Darkness Mystery Visions H P Lovecraft Tales Of Horror Arcana The Haunter Of The Dark

Book:The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3

Source: The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3

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The Dream-Quest of Unknown KadathRelated source material

Against Religion: The Atheist Writings of H.P. LovecraftRelated source material

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