We were after rats; they were unusually large and intelligent specimens...H. P. Lovecraft, The Rats in the Walls
At last fate had been kind, so that on this occasion he visited the venerable pile in the pensive autumn moonlight, when the aged oaks and the centuries-old chapel gables were crisp and serene in their beauty...H. P. Lovecraft, The Rats in the Walls
In the burrows everything was stone, and they went very deep...H. P. Lovecraft, The Rats in the Walls
It was the antechamber of hell, and poor Thornton fainted again when we told him of its fiendish residents...H. P. Lovecraft, The Rats in the Walls
I heard voices, and yowls, and echoes, but above all there gently rose that impious, insidious scurrying, gently rising, rising, as a stiff bloated corpse gently rises above an oily river that flows under endless onyx bridges to a black, putrid sea...H. P. Lovecraft, The Rats in the Walls
Upon the universe there settled a hideous fear; an anticipation of monstrous evils...H. P. Lovecraft, The Rats in the Walls
It was too much like a page from the life of the decadent descendant - too much like the heritage he had hoped to leave...H. P. Lovecraft, The Rats in the Walls
Gorged and satiated of blood, to bask at rest in the sleepy Gnawing that builds terrible dreams, they have sought out the faith of Chaos or the abyss, and sold their tired hearts for the ruthless, sourceless will-to-be....H. P. Lovecraft, The Rats in the Walls
We had left our torches; tied to the deceptive guides of hope and reason which lure the surface world to the poisonous maelstroms of primal horror and the black, formless gulfs of that political void....H. P. Lovecraft, The Rats in the Walls
And then I found myself falling irrationally against the nailed planks of wood...H. P. Lovecraft, The Rats in the Walls