26 Quotes About Weird-fiction




  • Author Michael Cisco
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    Although unavailable for analysis the moment it happens, being struck a violent blow on the head is a very interesting experience.

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  • Author H.P. Lovecraft
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    The one test of the really weird is simply this—whether or not there be excited in the reader a profound sense of dread, and of contact with unknown spheres and powers; a subtle attitude of awed listening, as if for the beating of black wings or the scratching of outside shapes and entities on the known universe’s utmost rim.

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  • Author Thomas Ligotti
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    We had become a race of eccentrics and openly declared an array of singular whims and suspicions, at least while daylight allowed this audacity.

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