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.

Remember we’re dealing with a hideous world in which we are practically helpless . . . Keep still!’

We see things only as we are constructed to see them, and can gain no idea of their absolute nature.

These things should be left to the frigid and impersonal investigator for they offer two equally tragic alternatives to the man of feeling and action; despair, if he fail in his quest, and terrors unutterable and unimaginable if he succeed.

Gilman - whose ears had so lately possessed an abnormal sensitiveness - was now stone-deaf.

There had, they said, been a huge robed Negro, a little old woman in rags, and a young white man in his nightclothes. The old woman had been dragging the youth, while around the feet of the Negro a tame rat was rubbing and weaving in the brown mud.

Tradition emphasises the uselessness of material barriers in halting a witch’s motions, and who can say what underlies the old tales of broomstick rides through the night?

These simple people were quick to imagine they had seen any odd thing they had heard about.