The Irregular Reader

“Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.”
― H. P. Lovecraft

“Hill House,not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it has stood for eighty years and might stand eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.”
― Rudyard Kipling, Kim

“A man don't need to act tough if he is. Men that put on a show are spineless more often than not.”
― Eric Powell, The Goon, Volume 10: Death's Greedy Comeuppance