H P Lovecraft

 Dena Bain Taylor

Happy birthday to H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937), American author of fantastic and macabre short novels and stories, and one of the 20th-century masters of the Gothic tale of terror.

"The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind."

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."

"Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability."

"Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane."

"That is not dead which can eternal lie,

And with strange aeons even death may die."

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Photo: Penguin Random House

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