H.P. Lovecraft · 128 pages
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“Do not call up that which you cannot put down.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, quote from The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
“Whilst never actually rebuffing a visitor, he always reared such a wall of reserve that few could think of anything to say to him which would not sound inane.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, quote from The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
“With hidden powers of unknown extent apparently at his disposal, Curwen was not a man who could safely be warned to leave town.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, quote from The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
“Have only this consolation--that he was never a fiend or even truly a madman, but only an eager, studious, and curious boy whose love of mystery and of the past was his undoing. He stumbled on things no mortal ought ever to know, and reached back through the years as no one ever should reach; and something came out of those years to engulf him.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, quote from The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
“It is hard to explain just how a single sight of a tangible object with measurable dimensions could so shake and change a man; and we may only say that there is about certain outlines and entities a power of symbolism and suggestion which acts frightfully on a sensitive thinker’s perspective and whispers terrible hints of obscure cosmic relationships and unnamable realities behind the protective illusions of common vision.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, quote from The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
“It was a godless sound; one of those low-keyed, insidious outrages of Nature which are not meant to be. To call it a dull wail, a doom-dragged whine, or a hopeless howl of chorused anguish and stricken flesh without mind would be to miss its most quintessential loathsomeness and soul-sickening overtones.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, quote from The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
“Allen was perhaps a similar case, and may have persuaded the youth into accepting him as an avatar of the long-dead Curwen.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, quote from The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
H.P. Lovecraft
Born place: in Providence, Rhode Island, The United States
Born date August 20, 1890
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