The Book of Cthulhu II Quotes

“On the other hand, there is also the matter of Lovecraft’s place in popular culture.”
― Ross E. Lockhart, The Book of Cthulhu 2

“Benjamin Lassiter was coming to the unavoidable conclusion that the woman who had written A Walking Tour of the British Coastline, the book he was carrying in his backpack, had never been on a walking tour of any kind, and would probably not recognize the British coastline if it were to dance through her bedroom at the head of a marching band, singing “I’m the British Coastline” in a loud and cheerful voice while accompanying itself on the kazoo.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Book of Cthulhu II

“Waking, dreaming. She felt as if a woman torn between two lovers - one of them calm, and sweet, and still and good, and the other magnificent, stone-muscled and taciturn and bold enough to seize her and pull her close to him in the darkness of the night.”
― Gord Sellar, The Book of Cthulhu II

“It was the whole Bronx Zoo boiled down to a thick, viscous paste and then filled with lightning. Even”
― Ross E. Lockhart, The Book of Cthulhu 2

“He was wearing mittens and I felt he had too many fingers inside them.”
― Ross E. Lockhart, The Book of Cthulhu 2

“That a ploughman’s turned out to be a rectangular slab of sharp-tasting cheese, a lettuce leaf, an undersized tomato with a thumb-print in it, a mound of something wet and brown that tasted like sour jam, and a small, hard, stale roll, came as a sad disappointment to Ben, who had already decided that the British treated food as some kind of punishment.”
― Ross E. Lockhart, The Book of Cthulhu 2

“But it takes more than a few unpronounceable names, moldy tomes, and tentacles to successfully write a story in the Lovecraftian mode.”
― Ross E. Lockhart, The Book of Cthulhu 2

“HPL inadvertently created an open source fantastic universe unlike any other, ultimately grounded in the modern world, but enriched by secret histories and weird cults, and populated by ghouls, night-gaunts, and Elder Things.”
― Ross E. Lockhart, The Book of Cthulhu 2

“the recently-aborted multi-million-dollar Guillermo del Toro adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness?”
― Ross E. Lockhart, The Book of Cthulhu 2