The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack Quotes

“Her laughter was like sweet deadly venom.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories

“Wave after wave of cats poured down from the hill as if a vent into a world of cats had been opened,”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories

“When you can hear a spider walk across the floor, you know it’s time to keep your socks on. Thank God for insecticide.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories

“Was tempted to quote Walden—“Why should I feel lonely? Is not our planet in the Milky Way?”—but refrained. How can I get lonely, I asked, when there’s still so much to read?”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories

“All the birds had flown away, save only the great, grotesque penguins.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories

“Reasonable readers would have accepted my book about ghouls as a work of fiction, but such readers are rare, and most condemned it as a hoax. Even worse, totally unreasonable readers took it for a scientific treatise.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories

“It is absurd to say that mathematicians have not discovered the fourth dimension.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories

“several of our company told of ghosts, one, how a man had been slain on the way to the wars, but had not known it, his ghost going on, thinking himself alive, performing deeds of great valor, even returning home in triumph where he bought lands, begot sons, and lived in contentment for many years before discovering one day, by chance, that he was already dead.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories

“Chronophagos, the Devourer of Time, the Eater of Hours. What man remembereth even the hour of his death if the Chronophagos hath devoured it? —Nicephoros Attaliades, The Testament of Nightmares”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories

“the rats inevitably dragged away the whole cadaver through the hole they gnawed in the coffin.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories

“that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories

“Despite his Falstaffian appearance he was a hard and ruthless man. His piggish eyes were filled with greed; his fleshy mouth was lustful; his only natural smile was one of avarice.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories

“I read odd books and entertained odd ideas (however furtively), largely ignored by my family; and at that age I was looking hard for someone to follow, a mentor of any sort, who would take me under his wing and recognize my special talents (assuming that I had any) and tell me the secret of how everything worked, so I could avoid pain. And there you were.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories

“Ye have done much to bring about the indescribable return. May ye go mad quickly and not be devoured.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories

“My youngest boy went mad. He sits drooling on the porch, trying to play the cat like an accordion. He’s been scratched some.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories

“Whitman Press will publish three children’s textbooks, based on your creed, for which you’ll deliver manuscripts and artwork. The three books are: 1. Dagon and Jill 2. The Shadow Over Humpty Dumpty 3. A Children’s Necronomicon (with pop-up section)”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories

“Then the germ of panic seemed to spread among the seekers. It was one thing to chase the nameless entity, but quite another to find it. Spells might be all right—but suppose they weren’t?”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories

“It had been so long abandoned that the rats scurrying on their errands spared me no more than occasional glances of annoyance.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories

“I said, “I try to open my mail at least once a year, but sometimes I neglect it.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories

“These little debates are known as “flamewars.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories

“Nahum did not send her to the county asylum, but let her wander about the house as long as she was harmless to herself and others. Even when her expression changed he did nothing. But when the boys grew afraid of her, and Thaddeus nearly fainted at the way she made faces at him, he decided to keep her locked in the attic.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories

“It was morning when I saw it, but shadow lurked always there. The trees grew too thickly, and their trunks were too big for any healthy New England wood. There was too much silence in the dim alleys between them, and the floor was too soft with the dank moss and mattings of infinite years of decay.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories

“We may guess that in dreams life, matter, and vitality, as the earth knows such things, are not necessarily constant; and that time and space do not exist as our waking selves comprehend them. 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.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories

“thirst had driven him into the desert again,”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories

“You drug me, and then ask me to walk! Frank, you’re as unreasonable as an artist.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories

“You cannot oppose what you cannot see or feel. You cannot oppose the thousand-dimensional. Suppose they should eat their way to us through space!”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories

“The square-paned windows were coated with a thick, dewlike moisture;”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories

“Looking desultorily about, his attention had been drawn by a dull glimmering on one of the tables; and he had extricated the queer orblike stone from its shadowy, crowded position between an ugly little Aztec idol, the fossil egg of a dinornis, and an obscene fetish of black wood from the Niger.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories

“The priest was dead. Nevertheless, he sat at table with us as we feasted on cold meats.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories

“we had allowed ourselves to become distracted on the way to the Crusade, never laid eyes on a Turk, turned to pillage and rapine among the Hungarians and Greeks in order to reach the East…all for the glory of God, of course, until defeated,”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories