The Shunned House Quotes

“for one who sits by a sleeper is indeed alone; perhaps more alone than he can realize.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Shunned House

“I say alone, for one who sits by a sleeper is indeed alone; perhaps more alone than he can realise.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Shunned House

“Some secrets of inner earth are not good for mankind,”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Shunned House

“Dazedness was uppermost, and I could scarcely recall what was dream and what was reality. Then thought trickled back, and I knew that I had witnessed things more horrible than I had dreamed.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Shunned House

“Etienne’s son Paul, a surly fellow whose erratic conduct had probably provoked the riot which wiped out the family, was particularly a source of speculation; and though Providence never shared the witchcraft panics of her Puritan neighbours, it was freely intimated by old wives that his prayers were neither uttered at the proper time nor directed toward the proper object.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Shunned House