"The expression on her face was one of hideous malevolance and exultation, and... [she had] a croaking voice that persuaded and threatened. He must meet the Black Man and go with them all to the... center of ultimate chaos."
HPL - "The Dreams in the Witch-House"

"Yog Sothoth knows the gate. Yog Sothoth is the Gate. Yog Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate."
- HPL, "The Dunwich Horror"

"The nature of the Doels was plainly revealed..."
HPL - "The Whisperer in Darkness"

"...and I started with loathing when told of the monstrous nuclear chaos beyond angled space which the Necromicon had mercifully cloaked under the name of Azathoth."
HPL - "The Whisperer in Darkness"

"...a land race of beings shaped like Octopi... [the] spawn of Cthulhu..."
- HPL, "At the Mountains of Madness"

"And through this revolting graveyard of the universe the muffled, maddening beating of drums, and thin, monotonous whine of blasphemous flutes from inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond Time; the detestable pounding and piping whereunto dance slowly, awkwardly, and absurdly the gigantic, tenebrous ultimate gods - the blind, voiceless, mindless gargoyles whose soul is Nyarlathotep."
HPL - "Nyarlathotep"

"The Outer Beings... have a somewhat fungoid structure... Their main immediate abode... [is] the object mystically hinted at as "Yuggoth" in certain ancient and forbidden writings... Those wild hills are surely the outpost of a frightful cosmic race... the hellish... living fungi from Yuggoth."
HPL - "The Whisperer in Darkness"

"...a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train - a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and unforming as pustules of greenish light..."
- HPL, "At the Mountains of Madness"

"Ia! Shub-Niggurath! The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young!
- HPL, "The Whisperer in Darkness"