“Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse.”
— “Supernatural Horror in Literature”
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— “Supernatural Horror in Literature”
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“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.”
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And with strange aeons even death may die.”
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“On many occasions the curious atmospheric effects enchanted me vastly; these including a strikingly vivid mirage - the first I had ever seen - in which distant bergs became the battlements of unimaginable cosmic castles.”
― At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror
― At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror
“The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. It shall not find me. God, that hand! The window! The window!”
― Dagon et autres nouvelles de terreur
― Dagon et autres nouvelles de terreur
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