H.P. Lovecraft

The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft

Alice

I felt I had known it before, in a past remote beyond all recollection; beyond even my tenancy of the body I now possess.

I told myself, I should grow to a strength and ingenuity which might enable me to unfasten the heavily chained door with ease; but until then I would do better by conforming to what seemed the will of Fate.

In hell there’s no innkeeper’s daughter like this!

I felt myself on the edge of the world; peering over the rim into a fathomless chaos of eternal night.

the Pole Star, evil and monstrous, leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey.

We may guess that in dreams life, matter, and vitality, as the earth knows such things, are not necessarily constant; and that time and space do not exist as our waking selves comprehend them.

But I do not fear him now, for I suspect that he has known horrors beyond my ken. Now I fear for him.

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

No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.

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