霍华德·菲利普斯·洛夫克拉夫特是一位美国怪诞恐怖小说作家，他以创作后来的克图尔胡神话而闻名。洛夫克拉夫特出生于罗德岛的普罗维登斯，他一生的大部分时间都在新英格兰度过。他出生富裕，但祖父去世后，他家的财富很快就消散了。
The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.
《幽灵般的恐怖》的吸引力通常很小，因为它要求读者有一定程度的想象力和脱离日常生活的能力。
Personally, I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.
就我个人而言，我一点也不在乎永生。没有什么比遗忘更好的了，因为在遗忘中没有什么愿望没有实现。我们在出生前就有了，却没有抱怨。我们会因为知道它会回来而发牢骚吗？不管怎样，这对我来说已经足够了。
Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
恐怖袭击后的搜寻者出没在陌生遥远的地方。
Cats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality - the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men.
猫是美丽、无敌、神奇、骄傲、自由、冷漠、自给自足和精致个性的符文——敏感、开明、心智发达、异教、愤世嫉俗、诗意、哲理、冷静、含蓄、独立、尼采、完整、文明、大师级的人的品质。
But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
但比老人的传说和书籍的传说更奇妙的是海洋的秘密传说。
If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
如果宗教是真的，那么它的追随者就不会试图强迫他们的年轻人去人为地顺从；但他们只会坚持不屈不挠地追求真理，不顾人为背景或实际后果。
Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.
劳碌无歌，犹如旅途劳累无终点。
I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
我从不问一个人他的生意是什么，因为我从不感兴趣。我问他的是他的思想和梦想。