The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.

Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.

Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises.

Sometimes one feels that it would be merciful to tear down these houses, for they must often dream.

It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all.

From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.