Romuald

“He liked to imagine that he would have preferred to have lived in an earlier era, a time when, perhaps, life would not have been so complicated for a fellow such as himself. He had often felt a loner in the modern world, which was one reason he loved books, that world into which he could escape neoteric time. He felt, here in this entrance way to the building, that he had stepped into an earlier epoch, away from the dull prevailing age.”
― W.H. Pugmire, An Ecstasy of Fear

“We are the children of the valley. Borne of its magick, we must at some time return to its substance.”
― W.H. Pugmire, Dreams of Lovecraftian Horror

“The New Revolution will be when the unknown masses rise up to destroy the power behind celebrity. This power creates the idiot sports players, cretinous pop stars and soap opera mannequins who hypnotise the masses.”
― Mark Samuels, The Man Who Collected Machen and Other Weird Tales

“Brother of mine, tainted by my adoration, your breath is cosmic mistral that speaks the poison of Baudelaire, and I imbibe the alchemy. My star-brimmed eyes leak tears for you, beautiful and lonesome eidolon, my phantom-double; creature of desire and dismay.”
― W.H. Pugmire, An Ecstasy of Fear