"This guy has scared the sh*t out of me since I was fifteen."

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."

I live on the Maine coast in a two hundred year old farmhouse. When bad weather comes in it gets dark and we lose electricity alot. I was sitting with my family and reading by lanterns when I pulled down a copy of the Mountains of madness. I checked under my bed twice that night before turning in.....