Ross E. Lockhart > Quotes

“This is where I stand, at the bottom gate, and I hold the key to the abyss…”
― Ross E. Lockhart, The Book of Cthulhu

“It's your bone structure, contemplates Erin, that's what makes you pretty. It's the scars that make you memorable.”
― Ross E. Lockhart, Chick Bassist

“On the other hand, there is also the matter of Lovecraft’s place in popular culture.”
― Ross E. Lockhart, The Book of Cthulhu 2

“One part pulp, one part noir, two parts pure cosmic terror, blended smooth and seasoned with a literary skill that few possessed.”
― Ross E. Lockhart, The Children of Old Leech: A Tribute to the Carnivorous Cosmos of Laird Barron

“Wave after wave, each mightier than the last,”
― Ross E. Lockhart, The Book of Cthulhu

“People don’t want a genuine psychic revelation,” he said. “They want comforting parlor games, the sense that there are invisible threads that hold the world together. They don’t want to know that the world is vast and grim and hungry. They know that already.”
― Ross E. Lockhart, Cthulhu Fhtagn!

“He was wearing mittens and I felt he had too many fingers inside them.”
― Ross E. Lockhart, The Book of Cthulhu 2

“Love Will Save You Cameron Pierce”
― Ross E. Lockhart, Cthulhu Fhtagn!

“the recently-aborted multi-million-dollar Guillermo del Toro adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness?”
― Ross E. Lockhart, The Book of Cthulhu 2

“ASSEMBLAGE POINT Scott R. Jones”
― Ross E. Lockhart, Cthulhu Fhtagn!

“Job: “Can you pull in Leviathan… tie down its tongue with a rope? Will it keep beging you for mercy? Will it speak to you with gentel words?”
― Ross E. Lockhart, The Children of Old Leech: A Tribute to the Carnivorous Cosmos of Laird Barron

“The birth and death of stars, light reaching his aging eyes after a billion years racing across the near-vacuum, and sometimes he spent the days gathering fossils from the cliffs and arranging them in precise geometric patterns in the tall grass around the house. He left lines of salt and drew elaborate runes, the meanings of which he’d long since forgotten. His”
― Ross E. Lockhart, The Book of Cthulhu

“But it takes more than a few unpronounceable names, moldy tomes, and tentacles to successfully write a story in the Lovecraftian mode.”
― Ross E. Lockhart, The Book of Cthulhu 2

“HPL inadvertently created an open source fantastic universe unlike any other, ultimately grounded in the modern world, but enriched by secret histories and weird cults, and populated by ghouls, night-gaunts, and Elder Things.”
― Ross E. Lockhart, The Book of Cthulhu 2

“This is where I stand, at the bottom gate, and I hold the key to the abyss”
― Ross E. Lockhart, The Book of Cthulhu

“It is a different fight. We don’t wage war upon human society, for it must destroy itself. Our true enemies are the domesticated crops that rule their lives. Before nature can be saved from man, humanity must be delivered from the Cavendish banana, the Red Delicious apple, the Russet Burbank potato, from patented Monsanto corn.”
― Ross E. Lockhart, Cthulhu Fhtagn!

“Think of it. Mankind has domesticated plants for ten thousand years, changing them to suit his desires. But plants emerged on land millions of years before the first walking fish, and they have had two hundred million years to learn to make animals serve them. “All of humankind is enslaved by grains, fruit and livestock. All these species drove men to reshape the world to spread their genes. At the behest of corn and bananas and coffee and cocaine, man has cut down nearly all of the forests. They have cut out their lungs to fill their bellies.”
― Ross E. Lockhart, Cthulhu Fhtagn!

“It was the whole Bronx Zoo boiled down to a thick, viscous paste and then filled with lightning. Even”
― Ross E. Lockhart, The Book of Cthulhu 2

“That a ploughman’s turned out to be a rectangular slab of sharp-tasting cheese, a lettuce leaf, an undersized tomato with a thumb-print in it, a mound of something wet and brown that tasted like sour jam, and a small, hard, stale roll, came as a sad disappointment to Ben, who had already decided that the British treated food as some kind of punishment.”
― Ross E. Lockhart, The Book of Cthulhu 2

“You are a dream your brain has always dreamt, a story it tells itself. But a tale once told does not belong to the teller, but to the reader, the world. Compose your story, and you may not only withstand the pain and the darkness, but you may escape your body altogether…”
― Ross E. Lockhart, The Children of Old Leech: A Tribute to the Carnivorous Cosmos of Laird Barron