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I learned of the fungoid, inhuman beings that dwell on far cold Yuggoth, of the cyclopean shapes that attend unsleeping Cthulhu in his submarine city, of the strange pleasures that the followers of leprous, subterranean Yog-Sothoth may
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From "The Secret of Kralitz"
“it is hard for the human mind to grasp anything but a human explanation of phenomena.”
― Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird
― Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird
“We’re not supposed to come back when we’re dead. There’s no science we’ve figured out to explain it.”
― The Dispatcher
― The Dispatcher
“certain authors develop certain types of world views that compel them to write fiction that causes readers to question, revise, or refashion their views of the universe; the result is what we (in retrospect) call weird fiction.”
― The Weird Tale: Arthur Machen/Lord Dunsany/Algernon Blackwood/M. R. James/Ambrose Bierce/H. P. Lovecraft
― The Weird Tale: Arthur Machen/Lord Dunsany/Algernon Blackwood/M. R. James/Ambrose Bierce/H. P. Lovecraft
“One of my senses was saluted, nay, more than that, hailed, with imperiousness, and that was, strangely enough, my sense of smell, but in a hitherto unknown fashion.”
― Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird
― Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird
“did it ever occur to you, my friend, that force and matter are merely the barriers to perception imposed by time and space?”
― Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird
― Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird
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