It is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope to show by this statement that I am not his murderer.

That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort of lines and proportions that connect up with latent instincts or hereditary memories of fright, and the proper colour contrasts and lighting effects to stir the dormant sense of strangeness.

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

I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit.

A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life, they must shift their emphasis towards something to which they can be true; namely, certain wistful or restless moods of the human spirit, wherein it seeks to weave gossamer ladders of escape from the galling tyranny of time, space, and natural law.

In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,But all the sadder tums, the more he knows!

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.