Quotes

There were a Rattling and Rolling, Groaning, Screeching, and Hissing, such as no Things of this Earth cou'd raise up, and which must needs have come from those Caves that only black Magick can discover, and only the Divell unlock. ~ The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen. ~ The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft There are horrors beyond horrors, and this was one of those nuclei of all dreamable hideousness which the cosmos saves to blast an accursed and unhappy few. ~ The Shunned House by H. P. Lovecraft The general fact is, that the house was never regarded by the solid part of the community as in any real sense "haunted." There were no widespread tales of rattling chains, cold currents of air, extinguished lights, or faces at the window. Extremists sometimes said the house was "unlucky," but that is as far as even they went. What was really beyond dispute is that a frightful proportion of persons died there. ~ The Shunned House by H. P. Lovecraft "I say alone, for one who sits by a sleeper is indeed alone; perhaps more alone than he can realize." ~ The Shunned House by H. P. Lovecraft They were strange, the facts about them: their staying inside by day, their avoidance of garlic, their death by stake, their reputed fear of crosses, their supposed dread of mirrors. ~ I Am Legend by Richard Matheson "How quickly one accepts the incredible if only one sees it enough!" ~ I Am Legend by Richard Matheson "Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend." ~ I Am Legend by Richard Matheson The sense of humor dies hard. ~ Personality Plus by Edna Ferber "It's been my experience," observed Emma McChesney, "that when a firm condescends to pay a woman twice as much as a man, that means she's worth six times as much." ~ Personality Plus by Edna Ferber