“There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.”
“Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.”
“Reading stimulates the imagination and a good imagination can change the world in the most splendid of ways.”
“Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination.”
“mystery is not founded in ignorance, mystery is founded in imagination”
“When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appearance; and these bushes, crowding huddled about us, assumed for me in the darkness a bizarre grotesquerie of appearance that lent to them somehow the aspect of purposeful and living creatures. Their very ordinariness, I felt, masked what was malignant and hostile to us.”