There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range.

That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.

Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loossed upon the world.

In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulu waits dreaming

I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.

No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.