I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man.

It would be mockery to call such dreariness heaven at all.

It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.

The realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn,—not the material of my every-day existence--but in very deed that existence utterly and solely in itself.