“By a route obscure and lonely,
Haunted by ill angels only,
Where an Eidolon named NIGHT
On a black throne reigns upright,
I have reached these lands but newly
From an ultimate dim Thule—
From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime,
Out of SPACE—out of TIME.”

—Edgar Allen Poe, from Dreamland. As quoted in The Power of Blackness by Narry Levin, 1958.