"In those grisly eyes were mirrored all the unholy things and vile secrets that sleep in the cities under the sea, and…"

"God in heaven!" he cried. "I see!"...he shrieked. "I see everything. All of the billions of lives that preceded me on…"

"All about me there are angels--strange angels that have no counterparts on the earth. I am desperately afraid.""There…"

"All the evil in the universe was concentrated in their lean, hungry bodies. Or had they bodies? I saw them only for a…"

"What do we know … of the world and the universe about us? Our means of receiving impressions are absurdly few, and ou…"

"Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make…"

"Madness rides the star-wind... claws and teeth sharpened on centuries of corpses... dripping death astride a bacchana…"

"Memories and possibilities are ever more hideous than realities."

"The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely."

"And the thought recurs to me--if such a monstrous entity as the Master of the Monolith somehow survived its own unspe…"