The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories Quotes

“Less than a fortnight later we left the last hint of polar land behind us, and thanked heaven that we were clear of a haunted, accursed realm where life and death, space and time, have made black and blasphemous alliances in the unknown epochs since matter first writhed and swam on the planet’s scarce-cooled crust.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories

“Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon.
- Beyond the Wall of Sleep”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories

“Witch-cursed, legend-haunted Arkham, whose huddled, sagging gambrel roofs and crumbling Georgian balustrades brood out the centuries beside the darkly muttering Miskatonic.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories