## Metadata - Author: [[H. P. Lovecraft, Leslie S. Klinger, and Alan Moore]] - Full Title: The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft - Category: #books ## Highlights - the first living creatures to invade a lethal silence of centuries. ([Location 1462](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00N33M25M&location=1462)) - I was alone, yet bound to the unknown depths by those magic strands whose insulated surface lay green beneath the struggling beams of that waning crescent moon. In the lone silence of that hoary and deserted city of the dead, my mind conceived the most ghastly phantasies and illusions; and the grotesque shrines and monoliths seemed to assume a hideous personality—a half-sentience. ([Location 1493](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00N33M25M&location=1493)) - Around me were the tombs and the darkness and the shadows; below me, some peril beyond the radius of the human imagination. ([Location 1511](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00N33M25M&location=1511)) - his next whisper found me still held inert in the chains of stark horror. ([Location 1521](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00N33M25M&location=1521)) - One sight of the thing had been enough to throw the assembled men of science into a state of tense excitement, and they lost no time in crowding around him to gaze at the diminutive figure whose utter strangeness and air of genuinely abysmal antiquity hinted so potently at unopened and archaic vistas. No recognised school of sculpture had animated this terrible object, yet centuries and even thousands of years seemed recorded in its dim and greenish surface of unplaceable stone. ([Location 4346](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00N33M25M&location=4346)) - Inspector Legrasse and his nineteen colleagues plunged on unguided into black arcades of horror that none of them had ever trod before. ([Location 4406](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00N33M25M&location=4406)) - Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises heard by Legrasse’s men as they ploughed on through the black morass toward the red glare and muffled tom-toms. There are vocal qualities peculiar to men, and vocal qualities peculiar to beasts; and it is terrible to hear the one when the source should yield the other. Animal fury and orgiastic licence here whipped themselves to dæmoniac heights by howls and squawking ecstasies that tore and reverberated through those nighted woods like pestilential tempests from the gulfs of hell. ([Location 4415](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00N33M25M&location=4415)) - Then the liberated Old Ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom. ([Location 4479](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00N33M25M&location=4479)) - Queernesses that had baffled others seemed to harmonise terribly with some background of black knowledge which festered in the chasms of my subconscious. ([Location 16396](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00N33M25M&location=16396))