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

I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below.

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

Never Explain Anything

Our brains deliberately make us forget things, to prevent insanity

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.

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.