Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survivala survival of a hugely remote period whenconsciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanityforms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds

Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American writer of weird and horror fiction, who is known for his creation of what became known a ...