Ronald

“He said to me, ‘The book has found its reader,’ and what could I do but agree with him?”
― Thomas Ligotti, Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe

“If asked to name the definitive image in Lovecraft, one might likely say its tentacles flailing from the body of a monster. For me it would be probably be puppets, manikins, and clown-like things, even though these are more often a matter of metaphor than a literal presence of a monstrous type. Nevertheless, if Lovecraft’s tentacle monsters and my puppets and so on fought each other, I think the monsters would win.”
― Thomas Ligotti

“Strangeness which is the essence of beauty is the essence of truth, and the essence of the world. I have often felt that; when the ascent of a long hill brought me to the summit of an undiscovered height in London; and I looked down on a new land.”
― Arthur Machen, The London Adventure or The Art of Wandering

“But surely,’ I said at last, ‘Love is stronger than Death?’ ‘We must believe so, Martin, even when it appears to be untrue.”
― Reggie Oliver, The Ballet of Dr Caligari and Madder Mysteries