The Lurking Fear Quotes

“Shreiking, slithering, torrential shadows of red viscous madness chasing one another through endless, ensanguinated condors of purple fulgurous sky... formless phantasms and kalaidoscopic mutations of a ghoulish, remembered scene; forests of monstrous over-nourished oaks with serpent roots twisting and sucking unnamable juices from an earth verminous with millions of cannibal devils; mound-like tentacles groping from underground nuclei of polypous perversion... insane lightning over malignant ivied walls and demon arcades choked with fungous vegetation...”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Lurking Fear

“Some said the thunder called the lurking fear out of its habitation, while others said the thunder was its voice.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Lurking Fear

“My slight fall had extinguished the lantern, but I produced an electric pocket lamp and viewed the small horizontal tunnel which led away indefinitely in both directions. It was amply large enough for a man to wriggle through; and though no sane person would have tried at that time, I forgot danger, reason, and cleanliness in my single-minded fever to unearth the lurking fear.”
― H. P. Lovecraft, THE LURKING FEAR.

“the embodiment of all the snarling chaos and grinning fear that lurk behind life”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Lurking Fear

“If heaven is merciful, it will some day efface from my consciousness the sight that I saw, and let me live my last years in peace.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Lurking Fear