The Nameless City – H.P. Lovecraft (★★★★★)

"That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange eons, even death may die."

"Only the grim brooding desert gods know what really took place—what indescribable struggles and scrambles in the dark I endured or what Abaddon guided me back to life, where I must always remember and shiver in the night wind till oblivion—or worse—claims me. Monstrous, unnatural, colossal, was the thing—too far beyond all the ideas of man to be believed except in the silent damnable small hours of the morning when one cannot sleep."

The Hound – H.P. Lovecraft (★★★★★)

"We thought we saw the bats descend in a body to the earth we had so lately rifled, as if seeking for some cursed and unholy nourishment. But the autumn moon shone weak and pale, and we could not be sure. So, too, as we sailed the next day away from Holland to our home, we thought we heard the faint distant baying of some gigantic hound in the background. But the autumn wind moaned sad and wan, and we could not be sure."

"Down unlit and illimitable corridors of eldritch phantasy sweeps the black, shapeless Nemesis that drives me to self-annihilation."

The Festival – H.P. Lovecraft (★★★★☆)

"Great holes secretly are digged where earth's pores ought to suffice, and things have learnt to walk that ought to crawl."

The Dunwich Horror – H.P. Lovecraft (★★★★★)

"Is it that we naturally conceive terror from such objects, considered in their capacity of being able to inflict upon us bodily injury? Oh, least of all! These terrors are of older standing. They date beyond body—or without the body, they would have been the same"

The Whisperer in Darkness – H.P. Lovecraft (★★★★☆)

"My brain whirled; and where before I had attempted to explain things away, I now began to believe in the most abnormal and incredible wonders. The array of vital evidence was damnably vast and overwhelming; and the cool, scientific attitude of Akeley—an attitude removed as far as imaginable from the demented, the fanatical, the hysterical, or even the extravagantly speculative—had a tremendous effect on my thought and judgment."

The History of the Necronomicon – H.P. Lovecraft (★★☆☆☆)

"The book is rigidly suppressed by the authorities of most countries, and by all branches of organized ecclesiasticism. Reading leads to terrible consequences."

Fungi from Tuggoth – H.P. Lovecraft (★★★★☆)

"Such as in no poor earthly garden blow.
Yet for each dream these winds to me convey,
A dozen more of ours they sweep away."

From Beyond – H.P. Lovecraft (★★★★☆)

"We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight. We shall see these things, and others which no breathing creature has yet seen. We shall overleap time, space, and dimensions, and without bodily motion peer to the bottom of creation."

The Temple – H.P. Lovecraft (★★★☆☆)

"It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive short cut of supernaturalism."

The Disinterment – H.P. Lovecraft (★★☆☆☆)

"These dreams consisted mainly of ghoulish things; graveyards at night, stalking corpses, and lost souls amid a chaos of blinding light and shadow. The terrible reality of the visions disturbed me most of all: it seemed that some inside influence was inducing the grisly vistas of moonlit tombstones and endless catacombs of the restless dead."

The Lurking Fear – H.P. Lovecraft (★★★★☆)

"Sometimes, in the throes of a nightmare when unseen powers whirl one over the roofs of strange dead cities toward the grinning chasm of Nis, it is a relief and even a delight to shriek wildly and throw oneself voluntarily along with the hideous vortex of dream-doom down into whatever bottomless gulf may yawn"

The Rats in the Walls – H.P. Lovecraft (★☆☆☆☆)

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Polaris – H.P. Lovecraft (★☆☆☆☆)

"Slumber, watcher, till the spheres,
Six and twenty thousand years
Have revolv'd, and I return
To the spot where now I burn."

The White Ship – H.P. Lovecraft (★★★☆☆)

"Blue, green, gray, white or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent."

The Doom That Came to Sarnath – H.P. Lovecraft (★★★☆☆)

"DOOM had come to Sarnath."

The Cats of Ulthar - H.P. Lovecraft (★★★★☆)

"Nature is full of such illusions to impress the imaginative."

Celephais - H.P. Lovecraft (★★☆☆☆)

"When truth and experience failed to reveal it, he sought it in fancy and illusion, and found it on his very doorstep, amid the nebulous memories of childhood tales and dreams."

Nylarlathotep - H.P. Lovecraft (★★★☆☆)