Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way.

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

I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown

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

It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be left alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.