The Book of Iod Quotes

“No one liked to talk about it, but occasionally a toothless crone would mumble fearfully that the flames could not burn her, for her whole body had taken on the peculiar anesthesia of her witch-mark.”
― Henry Kuttner, The Book of Iod: Ten Cthulhu Stories

“I learned of the fungoid, inhuman beings that dwell on far cold Yuggoth, of the cyclopean shapes that attend unsleeping Cthulhu in his submarine city, of the strange pleasures that the followers of leprous, subterranean Yog-Sothoth may possess, and I learned, too, of the unbelievable manner in which Iod, the Source, is worshiped beyond the outer galaxies.”
― Henry Kuttner, The Book of Iod: Ten Cthulhu Stories

“Go therefore fearlessly, since god cannot conquer god, but only man who created him.”
― Henry Kuttner, The Book of Iod: Ten Cthulhu Stories

“The people of Bel Yarnak no longer move light-heartedly about their houses; lifeless images throng the streets and palaces. Immovable and silent sits the Sindara on a tarnished throne; dark and grim looms the city under the hurtling moons. It is Dis; it is the damned city, and sad voices in the silent metropolis mourn for lost glory.”
― Henry Kuttner, The Book of Iod: Ten Cthulhu Stories

“The rat was acting abnormally, he felt, and the unwinking gaze of its cold shoe-button eyes was somehow disturbing.”
― Henry Kuttner, The Book of Iod: Ten Cthulhu Stories

“The Sindara rules benignantly over Bel Yarnak; yet in the old days fear and doom lay like a shroud over the land, and in the Gray Gulf of Yarnak a brooding horror dwelt loathsomely.”
― Henry Kuttner, The Book of Iod: Ten Cthulhu Stories