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1890–1937 United States
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (20 August 1890 – 15 March 1937) was an American author of fantasy, horror, and science fiction, known for combining these three genres within single narratives and best remembered for the creation of the Cthulhu Mythos. He is considered, along with Edgar Allan Poe, to be one of the greatest Horror writers.
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The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
The Call of Cthulhu (1926)
The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious.
The Allowable Rhyme (1915)
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
Supernatural Horror in Literature (1927)
Memories and possibilities are ever more hideous than realities.
To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
That is not dead which can eternal lie,
No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.
As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence.
In short, the world abounds with simple delusions which we may call "happiness", if we be but able to entertain them.
Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects.
A voice from other epochs belongs in a graveyard of other epochs.
At the Mountains of Madness (1931)
My opinion of my whole experience varies from time to time.
There are black zones of shadow close to our daily paths, and now and then some evil soul breaks a passage through. When this happens the man who knows must strike before reckoning the consequences.
The Thing on the Doorstep (1937)
It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.
I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more.
I love to dream, but I never try to dream and think at the same time.
It must be remembered that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind; good and evil are local expedients—or their lack—and not in any sense cosmic truths or laws.
There is no field other than the weird in which I have any aptitude or inclination for fictional composition. Life has never interested me so much as the escape from life.
West of Arkham the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut.
The Colour Out of Space (1927)
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