Lovecraft's Monsters Quotes

“Deduction was for the highbrows in top hats and great coats; I performed my detecting with a boot and a six-gun.”
― Ellen Datlow, Lovecraft's Monsters

“We look about in puzzlement at our world, with a sense of unease and disquiet. We think of ourselves as scholars in arcane liturgies, single men trapped in worlds beyond our devising. The truth is far simpler: there are things in the darkness beneath us that wish us harm.” His”
― Ellen Datlow, Lovecraft's Monsters

“Rudge was not a pessimist, but he’d lived long enough to know that hope had to be kept on a short leash.”
― Ellen Datlow, Lovecraft's Monsters

“Once upon a time, there was a ghoul who fell in love with a daughter of the port of Innsmouth. To say the least, her parents would hardly have looked upon this as an acceptable state of affairs. She, destined one day to descend through abyssal depths to the splendor of many spired Y’ha-nthlei in the depths well beyond the shallows of Jeffreys Ledge. She might have the fortune to marry well, perhaps, even, taking for herself a husband from among the amphibious Deep Ones who inhabit the city, or, at the very least, a fine and only once-human devotee of the Esoteric Order. She would be adorned in nothing more than the fantastic, partly golden alloy diadems and bracelets and anklets, the lavalieres of uncut rubies, emeralds, sapphires, and diamonds. What caring parent would not be alarmed that their only daughter might foolishly forsake so precious an inheritance, and all for an infatuation with so lowborn and vile creature as a ghoul?”
― Ellen Datlow, Lovecraft's Monsters

“Primitive peoples did not inspire Rudge, who saw in them the worst aspects of human nature, reminding him that superstition, ignorance, violence, and cruelty were inherent human traits, first impulses, and that civilization was a cheap coat of paint over a rotten edifice.”
― Ellen Datlow, Lovecraft's Monsters

“Time is a ring, and in the House of Belphegor that ring contracts like a muscle.”
― Ellen Datlow, Lovecraft's Monsters