H. P. Lovecraft

Dr. Johnson was born on the family Estate in Devonshire, and became acquainted with Mr. Addison and Dr. Swift. He was a full, pursy Man, very ill drest, and of slovenly Aspect. I saw Johnson very...

When age fell upon the world, and wonder went out of men's minds, a man traveled out of life on a quest into spaces whither the world's dreams had fled. This man dwelt in a city of high walls where...

I have often wondered if most people ever pause to reflect upon their dreams, and the obscure world they belong to. Joe Slater was a typical denizen of the Catskill Mountain region, but his...

Kuranes saw the city in the valley, and the seacoast beyond, but ceased to write. Three nights afterward he came again to Celephais, and saw the village that was asleep or dead, and the abyss down...

You ask me to explain why I am afraid of a draught of cool air; I can only say that in the spring of 1923 I had a heart attack in the hall room above mine. Dr. Muoz was a man of birth, cultivation,...

I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, and I have discovered myself half sucked into a slimy expanse of hellish black mire. I sat thinking or brooding in the stranded boat for...

When the last days were upon me, I loved the irradiate refuge of sleep, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods, sailing endlessly and languorously under strange stars, and walking...

Sir Arthur Jermyn burned himself after seeing a boxed object from Africa, and was placed in a madhouse. His wild stories of Africa led to his friends to deem him mad, and he died three years...

Crawford Tillinghast changed into a maniac after answering my remonstrances. He drove me from his laboratory and his house in a burst of fanatical rage. Within twenty-four hours, a machine near the...

I saw him on a sleepless night when I was walking desperately to save my soul and my vision. I used to wander alone among the cryptical windings. A man came upon me at about two one cloudy August...

Herbert West, who was my friend in college and after life, believed that artificial reanimation of the dead could be done with fresh human bodies. We found the new grave and began work soon after...

A man was unconscious in a railway station, so I told him to come home with me and be my teacher and leader in unfathomable mysteries. We studied in the tower studio chamber of the old manor-house...