The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detach….

An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagan….

I have never been able to soothe myself with the sugary delusions of religion; for these things stand convicted of the utmost absurdity in light of m….

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth..

I could not write about "ordinary people" because I am not in the least interested in them..

My opinion of my whole experience varies from time to time..

I am so beastly tired of mankind and the world that nothing can interest me unless it contains a couple of murders on each page or deals with the hor….

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

If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement an….

Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably supersti….

The moon is dark, and the gods dance in the night; there is terror in the sky, for upon the moon hath sunk an eclipse foretold in no books of men or ….

The ignorant and the deluded are, I think, in a strange way to be envied. That which is not known of does not trouble us, while an imagined but insub….

There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dre….

Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold mor….

The phenomenon of dreaming ... helped to build up the notion of an unreal or spiritual world; and in general, all the conditions of savage dawn-life ….

The one test of the really weird (story) is simply this--whether or not there be excited in the reader a profound sense of dread, and of contact with….

In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist. The chan….

It's not a bad idea to call this Cthulhuism & Yog-Sothothery of mine "The Mythology of Hastur" - although it was really from Machen & Dunsany & other….

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..

Do not call up any that you can not put down..

All I want is to know things. The black gulph of the infinite is before me..