The Call of Cthulhu and At the Mountains of Madness

heart.”
In 1921, while attending a convention of the UAPA in Boston, Lovecraft met Sonia Greene, a widowed Brooklyn milliner seven years his senior. Their brief, disastrous marriage took him to New York City for two years; his return to Providence in the spring of 1926 prompted the greatest creative outburst of his short career.

The eight perfect specimens mentioned by Lake seemed to have been completely blown away.

The tremendous significance lies in what we dared not tell; what I would not tell now but for the need of warning others off from nameless terrors.

At the moment I felt sorry that I had ever read the abhorred Necronomicon, or talked so much with that unpleasantly erudite folklorist Wilmarth at the university.

I could not help feeling that they were evil things—mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss.

Arrangement reminds one of certain monsters of primal myth, especially fabled Elder Things in Necronomicon.

Dogs growing uneasy as we work, and seem to hate this soapstone. Must see if it has any peculiar odor.

The inevitable inference was that in this part of the world there had been a remarkable and unique degree of continuity between the life of over three hundred million years ago and that of only thirty million years ago.

He was strangely convinced that the marking was the print of some bulky, unknown, and radically unclassifiable organism of considerably advanced evolution

At last we were truly entering the white, aeon-dead world of the ultimate south.