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Quotes from Supernatural Horror in Literature — H. P. Lovecraft

1890–1937 United States

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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)

Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse.

Supernatural Horror in Literature (1927)

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