There are, I think, four distinct types of weird story: one expressing a mood or feeling, another expressing a pictorial conception, a third expressing a general situation, condition, legend or intellectual conception, and a fourth explaining a definite tableau or specific dramatic situation or climax.


H. P. Lovecraft

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H.P. LOVECRAFT
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulh...
H.P. LOVECRAFT
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is...
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all i...
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There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of th...
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Some of them stole off to those cryptical realms which are known only to cats and which villagers sa...
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Through all this horror my cat stalked unperturbed. Once I saw him monstrously perched atop a mounta...
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing,...
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I neither knew nor cared whether my experience was insanity, dreaming, or magic; but was determined ...
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I have seen beyond the bounds of infinity and drawn down daemons from the stars. . . . I have harnes...
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I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat ...
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It wearied Carter to see how solemnly people tried to make earthly reality out of old myths which ev...
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All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those bo...
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Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way.
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To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchan...
H.P. LOVECRAFT
Hei! Aa-shanta 'nygh! You are off! Send back earth's gods to their haunts on unknown Kadath, and pra...
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It is no longer necessary to preach sonorously of the sinful and deleterious effect of liquor on the...
H.P. LOVECRAFT
Though at times interested in reforms, notably prohibition (I have never tasted alcoholic liquor), I...
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The social prestige of wine at table and at the club must be destroyed through lofty example and pol...
H.P. LOVECRAFT
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all i...
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I have looked upon all the universe has to hold of horror, and even the skies of spring and flowers ...
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Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don't make t...
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At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, th...
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Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate...
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No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.
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Memories and possibilities are even more hideous than realities.
H.P. LOVECRAFT
I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thou...
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That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.
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They worshipped, so they said, the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who ...
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There is in certain ancient things a trace
Of some dim essence --
More than form or weight...
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He had read much of things as they are, and talked with too many people. Well-meaning philosophers h...
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We are all roamers of vast spaces and travelers in many ages.
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Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changele...
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What do we know,” he had said, “of the world and the universe about us? Our means of receiving i...
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The cloudless day is richer at its close;
A golden glory settles on the lea;
Soft, stealin...
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To say that we actually believed in vampires or werewolves would be a carelessly inclusive statement...
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I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness.
H.P. LOVECRAFT
After some time passed in studying - and even imitating - the works of others, I would recommend the...
H P (HENRY PEACH) ROBINSON
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have.
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Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
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People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road...
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Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H H WILLIAMS
There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an ...
H. H. MUNRO
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
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He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
H. H. MUNRO
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
H. H. WILLIAMS
Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.
H. H. MUNRO
The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went
H. H. MUNRO
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
H. H. MUNRO
All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's...
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Women and elephants never forget an injury
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The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happene...
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I always say beauty is only sin deep.
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I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to...
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A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mo...
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