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Quite alone both as a novel and as a piece of terror-literature stands the famous Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Brontë,


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H. P LOVECRAFT Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.
H. P LOVECRAFT We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant...
H. P LOVECRAFT I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales and do not expect to become a serio...
H. P. LOVECRAFT All of my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and emotions have no val...
H. P. LOVECRAFT The reason why time plays a great part in so many of my tales is that this element looms up in my mi...
H. P. LOVECRAFT Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward kee...
H. P. LOVECRAFT What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive ...
H. P. LOVECRAFT Certain of Poe's tales possess an almost absolute perfection of artistic form which makes them v...
H. P. LOVECRAFT The man or nation of high culture may acknowledge to great lengths the restraints imposed by convent...
H. P. LOVECRAFT Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.
H. P. LOVECRAFT The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant...
H. P. LOVECRAFT Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe a...
H. P. LOVECRAFT I am essentially a recluse who will have very little to do with people wherever he may be. I think t...
H. P. LOVECRAFT Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a co...
H. P. LOVECRAFT Indeed, there is much in pure humanitarian culture, as opposed to rigid scientific training, which e...
H. P. LOVECRAFT Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discov...
H. P. LOVECRAFT I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture an...
H. P. LOVECRAFT The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic l...
H. P. LOVECRAFT But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
H. P. LOVECRAFT I do not think that any realism is beautiful.
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