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.
Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way.
Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.
There now ensued a series of incidents which transported me to the opposite extremes of ecstasy and horror; incidents which I tremble to recall and dare not seek to interpret.
The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violations are always the least concrete and describable.
No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.
Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loossed upon the world.