I sat at the foot of a huge tree, a statue of the night, and tried to make an inventory of all… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“the principal horror of any system which defines the good in terms of profit rather than in terms of human need, or… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“Sleep, or repose that deserved the name of sleep, was out of question. That room, in which her disturbed imagination had tormented… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“They want to control humankind through what they call selective breeding. The Nazis started it, but now the nwo are continuing it.… — Brian Keene Copy Share Image
America was in full swing now, all the papers said so, and people were rushing forward, leaving behind the horrors of war.… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Men's souls are crooked and unsound things, not good materials out of which to build friendships, families, households, cities, civilizations. But good… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Horror hostess, bondage goddess, Charles Addams cartoon comes to life, Vampire was every first-generation fanboy's wet dream. Scott Poole takes us on… — Sheri Holman Copy Share Image
“The stuff of nightmare is their plain bread. They butter it with pain. They set their clocks by deathwatch beetles, and thrive… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
What bother me, not "bother me," exactly; that's not the right way to put it. But especially in the horror genre, once… — Rob Zombie Copy Share Image
I had a recurring fantasy in which I took (Rudy Giuliani) out during a press conference (it was nonlethal, just something that… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
“As she felt his fangs against her neck, she was in another world. There was screaming. A woman was somewhere in agony.… — Dawn Bonney-Heath Copy Share Image
Thomas Ligotti is an absolute master of supernatural horror and weird fiction, and a true original. He pursues his unique vision with… — Ramsey Campbell Copy Share Image
“He fills me with horror and I do not hate him. How can I hate him, Raoul? Think of Erik at my… — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
“Her eyes were of different colors, the left as brown as autumn, the right as gray as Atlantic wind. Both seemed alive… — Tim Willocks Copy Share Image
I come to present the strong claims of suffering humanity. I come to place before the Legislature of Massachusetts the condition of… — Dorothea Dix Copy Share Image
I think there's been a gigantic shift in the way we talk to each other, and the way that we communicate with… — Joe Swanberg Copy Share Image
This horror will grow mild, this darkness light; Besides what hope the never-ending flight Of future days may bring, what chance, what… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Good evening, Lord Corwin,' said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it. Good… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“He stood just near the club’s steps, his back to me along the foggy English night, and it was not until I’d… — S.C. Parris Copy Share Image
“Yep,” I said, rolling the body onto its back and staring into the horrified, bloated face, “you’re a single-bagger. My kinda gal.”… — Alistair Cross Copy Share Image
“Compassion for human hurt, a humble sense of our impermanence, an absolute valuation of justice—all of our so-called virtues only trouble us… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Terror is the instinct that tells you to run, dear God, run, she murmured. Run for your life. But it just makes… — Kat Richardson Copy Share Image
It is interesting to note that the best periods of Italian Horror films came out of the Sixties, when Italy was enjoying… — Barbara Steele Copy Share Image
Oh dear, is that a skunk?" Leonora asked. "No," Alessandro gasped in horror. "No the smelly cat!" "I've told you, Alessandro darling,… — Lynsay Sands Copy Share Image
More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“As has already been noted, fantastic literature developed at precisely the moment when genuine belief in the supernatural was on the wane,… — Franz Rottensteiner Copy Share Image
When you write a scene where somebody is afraid of something you instantly go to decades of genre cinema: horror, suspense, and… — Kleber Mendonca Filho Copy Share Image
It is beyond doubt that the chief motive of Vegetarianism is the humane one. Questions of hygiene and of economy both play… — Henry Stephens Salt Copy Share Image
Those films that really speak to the primal fear that we, as human beings, have about the unknown have always intrigued me.… — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Copy Share Image
Michael made his debut in John Carpenter's 1978 horror classic, Halloween, possibly the best scare movie to come along in the last… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
“Shawn slowly climbed the old wooden stairs, listening to the low creak that sounded from his footsteps. He hoped the wood wouldn’t… — Joe DeRouen Copy Share Image
The horror of the Holocaust is not that it deviated from human norms; the horror is that it didn't. What happened may… — Yehuda Bauer Copy Share Image
I know I have been portrayed as a general looking for war. Many other headlines speak of that. That's what people say.… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
There's a young Danish guy who has done a lot of work from an evolutionary perspective, Mathias Clasen. Basically, his argument is… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
One of my many horrors is to become the man with the frayed jacket and unfastened flies standing at the Co-op counter… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
The civilized people of today look back with horror at their medieval ancestors who wantonly destroyed great works of art or sat… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
"The weird world rolls on..." meaning that through all the ups and downs, all the travails that we go through, all the… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Afterward, I curl around her. We lie in silence until darkness falls, and then, haltingly, she begins to talk...She speaks without need… — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
… in the relentless and meaningless manner one searches for something in a nightmare, coming on doors that won’t open or drawers… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
