I started reading a collection of short novels by HP Lovecraft. Though I didn't enjoy the first two (the nameless city, the festival) very much, I really liked The Colour from Space, especially the sense of dred that permeate the story. Still there's something that bothers me: the many times he indulges in expressions like ( paraphrasing from memory) "so unusual he cannot recall", "something no human mind can describe", "unthinkable", "un-this", "un-that". It appears to me like a cheap way to say that something is really scary but without really describing it. He's basically saying that something is scary because he says so. Am I the only one who got this impression?