Author Quotes
Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American writer of weird and horror fiction, who is known for his creation of what became the Cthulhu Mythos.
“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)
The opening line of Lovecraft's critical essay. It serves as the philosophical foundation of his entire body of fiction — cosmic dread as the primary human response.
“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 (1928)
The opening of Lovecraft's most famous story. Knowledge here is not power but threat — if we could see the full picture, it would destroy us.
“We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”
— The Call of Cthulhu (1928)
Lovecraft's anti-Enlightenment manifesto. Curiosity is not a virtue but a danger — the boundaries of knowledge are there to protect us.