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Willow
06-03-2008, 06:14 AM
Originally posted by Demitri Esquire:

This book consists of ideas, images, & quotations hastily jotted down for possible future use in weird fiction. Very few are actually developed plots—for the most part they are merely suggestions or random impressions designed to set the memory or imagination working. Their sources are various—dreams, things read, casual incidents, idle conceptions, & so on.
—H. P. Lovecraft

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32 As dinosaurs were once surpassed by mammals, so will man-mammal be surpassed by insect or bird—fall of man before the new race.

Visitor from tomb—stranger at some publick concourse followed at midnight to graveyard where he descends into the earth.

109 Ancient negro voodoo wizard in cabin in swamp—possesses white man.

117 A secret living thing kept and fed in an old house.

123 Dried-up man living for centuries in cataleptic state in ancient tomb.