автордың кітабынан сөз тіркестері  The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft

Howard Lovecraft

Distant though it was from the remnant of a road, the house none the less impressed me unfavourably the very moment I espied it. Honest, wholesome structures do not stare at travellers so slyly and hauntingly,

Clearly, my nerves were sorely taxed, and I must cast off these impressions of weaker men.

These folk say that on a table in a bare room on the ground floor are many peculiar bottles, in each a small piece of lead suspended pendulum-wise from a string. And they say that the Terrible Old Man talks to these bottles, addressing them by such names as Jack, Scar-Face, Long Tom, Spanish Joe, Peters, and Mate Ellis, and that whenever he speaks to a bottle the little lead pendulum within makes certain definite vibrations as if in answer.

My rather original ideas regarding life and death had caused me to associate the cold clay with the breathing body in a vague fashion; and I felt that the great and sinister family of the burned-down mansion was in some way represented within the stone space I sought to explore.

nothing save a flight of damp stone steps leading downward

since detailed speech would but confirm

temperamentally unfitted for the formal studies and social recreations of my acquaintances

lacking the fellowship of the living, he inevitably draws upon the companionship of things that are not, or are no longer, living.

fastened ajar in a queerly sinister

No one recalled their identity, and they were soon forgotten by the many.