Displaying Top 10 H. P. Lovecraft quotes

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There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range.

The Thing on the Doorstep, part of the Cthulhu Mythos universe of horror fiction. Written in August 1933, and first published in the January 1937 issue of Weird Tales.


I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness.

From Beyond, written in 1920 and was first published in The Fantasy Fan in June 1934.


I could not help feeling that they were evil things - mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss.

At the Mountains of Madness, written in February/March 1931 and rejected that year by Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright on the grounds of its length. It was originally serialized in the February, March and April 1936 issues of Astounding Stories.