Sea Egg Again in the Bookshop

H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus 1 At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels of Terror

"I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess." - H.P. Lovecraft

 "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." - H.P. Lovecraft

 "Something was creeping and creeping and waiting to be seen and felt and heard." - H.P. Lovecraft

Symposium in the Bookshop

The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet" - Plato, The Symposium

 "I do not remember a time when I could not read, nor any time when reading was not a joy and a solace." - Emmeline Pankhurst

 "Every work that isn't a masterpiece is, in a sense, a part of a vast camouflage. You've been a soldier, I imagine, and you know what I mean. Every book that isn't a masterpiece is cannon fodder, a slogging foot soldier, a piece to be sacrificed, since in multiple ways it mimics the design of the masterpiece." - Roberto Bolaño