Howard Phillips Lovecraft

The Call of Cthulhu Illustrated Howard Phillips Lovecraft

(Found Among the Papers of the Late Francis Wayland Thurston, of Boston)"Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival... a survival of a hugely remote period when... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds