As with the inevitability of one's ancestry, eventually even running away, or death itself, provides no safety ("The Thing on the Doorstep", "The Outsider", "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward", etc.).
Številni njegovi junaki bi se rešili nevarnosti, če bi preprosto zbežali proč, vendar se ta priložnost nikoli ne pojavi ali pa jo zunanja sila nekako izniči, kot na primer v "The Colour Out of Space" in "The Dreams in the Witch House".