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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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Warped and bigoted with preconceived illusions of justice, freedom, and consistency, they cast off the old lore and the old way with the old beliefs; ...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 have seen the dark universe yawningWhere the black planets roll without aim,Where they roll in their horror unheeded,Without knowledge, or lustre, o...more

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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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It is good to be a cynic — it is better to be a contented cat — and it is best not to exist at all.

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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