Quotes About Mystery

For Arthur Munroe was dead. And on what remained of his chewed and gouged head there was no longer a face.

shadowy tangles of unpaved musty-smelling lanes where eldritch

Il gatto è misterioso e affine alle cose invisibili che l'uomo non potrà mai conoscere;

Those Old Ones were gone now, inside the earth and under the sea; but their dead bodies had told their secrets in dreams to the first men, who formed a cult which had never died.

But of these things I must not now speak. I will tell only of the lone tomb in the darkest of the hillside thickets.

Hieroglyphics had covered the walls and pillars, and from some undetermined point below had come a voice that was not a voice; a chaotic sensation which only fancy could transmute into sound, but which he attempted to render by the almost unpronounceable jumble of letters, "Cthulhu fhtagn".

Good God! What eldritch dream-world was this into which he had blundered?

I. Introduction

They's allus ben unseen things araound Dunwich—livin' things—as ain't human an' ain't good fer human folks.

Some said the thunder called the lurking fear out of its habitation, while others said the thunder was its voice.

I am Providence.

when I glanced at the moon it seemed to quiver as though mirrored in unquiet waters.

For those who relish speculation regarding the future, the tale of supernatural horror provides an interesting field.

Atal felt a spectral change in the air, as if the laws of earth were bowing to greater laws.

Look here, do you know the whole North End once had a set of tunnels that kept certain people in touch with each other's houses, and the burying ground, and the sea?

Next year I may be dwelling in the Egypt which you call ancient, or in the cruel empire of Tsan Chan which is to come three thousand years hence. You and I have drifted to the worlds that reel about the red Arcturus, and dwelt in the bodies of the insect-philosophers that crawl proudly over the fourth moon of Jupiter. How little does the earth self know life and its extent! How little, indeed, ought it to know for its own tranquility!

As to what the things were—explanations naturally varied. The common name applied to them was "those ones," or "the old ones," though other terms had a local and transient use. Perhaps the bulk of the Puritan settlers set them down bluntly as familiars of the devil, and made them a basis of awed theological speculation.

At a guess I'll guarantee to lead you to thirty or forty alleys and networks of alleys north of Prince Street that aren't suspected by ten living beings outside of the foreigners that swarm them.

The priest was dead. Nevertheless, he sat at table with us as we feasted on cold meats.

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die." Only

Certainly, we were in one of the strangest, weirdest, and most terrible of all the corners of earth's globe.

changed to the elevated at the South Station, and at about twelve o'clock had climbed down the steps at Battery Street and struck along the old waterfront past Constitution Wharf. I didn't keep track of the cross streets, and can't tell you yet which it was we turned up, but I know it wasn't Greenough Lane.

Copp's Hill Burying Ground, which could not be many blocks away from this very house, was a favourite scene.

we all come from onct—Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn! Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah-nagl fhtagn—