There was really nothing for serious men to do in cases of wild gossip, for superstitious rustics will say and believe anything.

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

I have seen the dark universe yawning Where the black planets roll without aim, Where they roll in their horror unheeded, Without knowledge, or lustre, or name.

incurable lover of the grotesque

Never Explain Anything

Maybe, just maybe, I should not have used the word "eldritch" so many times now that I think about it.

I have looked upon all the universe has to hold of horror,and even the skies of spring and flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me.