“One of those creatures wrote you once, ‘do not call up any that you can not put down’.”

— H.P. Lovecraft , book The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

often phrased as "Do not call up that which you cannot put down."
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Source: "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward", written 1927, first published in Weird Tales, July 1941

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