The Dreams in the Witch House Quotes

“Between the phantasms of nightmare and the realities of the objective world a monstrous and unthinkable relationship was crystallising, and only stupendous vigilance could avert still more direful developments.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Dreams in the Witch House

“The darkness always teemed with unexplained sound-and yet he sometimes shook with fear lest the noises he heard should subside and allow him to hear certain other, fainter noises which he suspected were lurking behind them.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Dreams in the Witch House

“tradition emphasises the uselessness of material barriers in halting a witch's notions”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Dreams in the Witch House

“All the objects—organic and inorganic alike—were totally beyond description or even comprehension. Gilman sometimes compared the inorganic masses to prisms, labyrinths, clusters of cubes and planes, and Cyclopean buildings; and the organic things struck him variously as groups of bubbles, octopi, centipedes, living Hindoo idols, and intricate Arabesques roused into a kind of ophidian animation.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Dreams in the Witch House