So far as English versification is concerned, Pope was the world, and all the world was Pope..

A page of Addison or of Irving will teach more of style than a whole manual of rules, whilst a story of Poe's will impress upon the mind a more vivid….

It is the night-black Massachusetts legendry which packs the really macabre "kick". Here is material for a really profound study in group-neuroticism….

Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be….

From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent..

Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places..

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

Nothing really known can continue to be acutely fascinating..

What I used to respect was not really aristocracy, but a set of personal qualities which aristocracy then developed better than any other system . . ….

Memory sometimes makes merciful deletions..

In relating the circumstances which have led to my confinement within this refuge for the demented, I am aware that my present position will create a….

Humour is but the faint terrestrial echo of the hideous laughter of the blind mad gods that squat leeringly and sardonically in caverns beyond the Mi….

You see them? You see the things that float and flop about you and through you ever moment of your life? You see the creatures that form what men cal….

Though not a participant in the Business of life; I am, like the character of Addison and Steele, an impartial (or more or less impartial) Spectator,….

With hidden powers of unknown extent apparently at his disposal, Curwen was not a man who could safely be warned to leave town..

I recognise a distinction between dream life and real life, between appearances and actualities. I confess to an over-powering desire to know whether….

While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent and permanent type of express….

Naturally one would rather be a broad artist with power to evoke beauty from every phase of experience--but when one unmistakably isn't such an artis….

Creative minds are uneven, and the best of fabrics have their dull spots..

Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the devil; but only a great pai….

Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead..