Nightside of Eden - Schwabstack

Among my best remembered visions are those of the awful cliffs, peaks, & abysses-hideous bleak rock & loathsome blackness.-over which I was borne in the clutch of black winged daemons to which I gave the original name of "night-gaunts", at the age of six! Verily, I have travelled to strange places which are not upon the earth or any known planet. I have been a rider of comets. & a brother to the nebulae. —H.P. Lovecraft, Letter to Rheinhart Kleiner, May 21, 1920 H.P. Lovecraft was not an atheist. He was a worshipper of the god Hypnos, the Oneiroi, Hermes and Thoth. His books, his letters, and the structure of his life form a hieroglyph which offers his most faithful confession. We are in no position to doubt the word-images of his monstrous soul, as we peer through the holes which let his abstract-outsideness into our world. Fell geometries of his dark Arcadia lead the reader toward subtle alignments of Orthoténie etched in creases there. Micro-efflux from ultracosmic planes, dead but

Among my best remembered visions are those of the awful cliffs, peaks, & abysses-hideous bleak rock & loathsome blackness.-over which I was borne in the clutch of black winged daemons to which I gave the original name of "night-gaunts", at the age of six! Verily, I have travelled to strange places which are not upon the earth or any known planet. I have been a rider of comets. & a brother to the nebulae. —H.P. Lovecraft, Letter to Rheinhart Kleiner, May 21, 1920 H.P. Lovecraft was not an atheist. He was a worshipper of the god Hypnos, the Oneiroi, Hermes and Thoth. His books, his letters, and