“This is the thing that troubles me, for I cannot forget Carcosa where black stars hang in the heavens; where the shadows of men's thoughts lengthen in the afternoon, when the twin suns sink into the lake of Hali; and my mind will bear for ever the memory of the Pallid Mask. I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with its beautiful stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth--a world which now trembles before the King In Yellow.”
― The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories
― The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories
“Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.”
― Paradise Lost
― Paradise Lost
“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
― Supernatural Horror in Literature
“Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.”
― Paradise Lost
― Paradise Lost
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