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When Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key of the gate of dreams.

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Damn it, it wasn’t quite fresh enough!

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its content. We live on a placid island of ignoranc...more

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Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed i...more

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As I shivered and brooded on the casting of that brain-blasting shadow, I knew that I had at last pried out one of earth's supreme horors-one of those...more

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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 towar...more

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Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fa...more

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Only a cynic can create horror--for behind every masterpiece of the sort must reside a driving demonic force that despises the human race and its illu...more

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By necessity practical and by philosophy stern, these folk were not beautiful in their sins.

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I could not help feeling that they were evil things-- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. That see...more

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Would to Heaven we had never approached them at all, but had run back at top speed out of that blasphemous tunnel with the greasily smooth floors and ...more

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

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The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. It shall not find me. God, that hand! The window! ...more

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Perhaps I should not hope to convey in mere words the unutterable hideousness that can dwell in absolute silence and barren immensity.

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If we knew what we are, we should do as Sir Arthur Jermyn did; and Arthur Jermyn soaked himself in oil and set first to his clothing one night.