Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a
survival… a survival of a hugely remote period when…
consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms
long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing … Read the rest
It is said that in Ulthar, which lies beyond the river Skai, no man may kill a cat; and this I can verily believe as I gaze upon him who sitteth purring before the fire. For … Read the rest
West of Arkham the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut. There are dark narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, and where thin brooklets trickle without … Read the rest
Of the pleasures and pains of opium much has been written. The ecstasies and horrors of De Quincey and the paradis artificiels of Baudelaire are preserved and interpreted with an art which makes them immortal, and … Read the rest
Writing on what my doctor tells me is my deathbed, my most hideous fear is that the man is wrong. I suppose I shall seem to be buried next week, but…
In London there is a … Read the rest
“…as Ibid says in his famous Lives of the Poets.”
The erroneous idea that Ibid is the author of the Lives is so frequently met with, even among those pretending to a degree of culture, that … Read the rest
There is in the land of Mnar a vast still lake that is fed by no stream, and out of which no stream flows. Ten thousand years ago there stood by its shore the mighty city … Read the rest
There is nothing more absurd, as I view it, than that conventional association of the homely and the wholesome which seems to pervade the psychology of the multitude. Mention a bucolic Yankee setting, a bungling and … Read the rest
I was shown into the attic chamber by a grave, intelligent-looking man with quiet clothes and an iron-gray beard, who spoke to me in this fashion:
“Yes, he lived here – but I don’t advise your … Read the rest
In the valley of Nis the accursed waning moon shines thinly, tearing a path for its light with feeble horns through the lethal foliage of a great upas-tree. And within the depths of the valley, where … Read the rest