Necronomicon

They did not see that good and evil and beauty and ugliness are only ornamental fruits of perspective,

‘Lovecraft opened the way for me, as he had done for others before me’ Stephen King

THE MOST MERCIFUL THING in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

For Arthur Munroe was dead. And on what remained of his chewed and gouged head there was no longer a face.

the demon, approaching the three watchers either from the window or the interior, had begun with the men on each side and left the middle man till the last

In the same breath they called it a snake and a giant, a thunder-devil and a bat, a vulture and a walking tree.

Drowsiness is so stifling, and dreams are so horrible . . .

They were never heard of again.

All was in vain; the death that had come had left no trace save destruction itself.

Of wild creatures there were none - they are wise when death leers close.