Nothin’s real scary except in books.

“Asked him and he said he wasn't. Besides, nothin's real scary except on books.”

— Harper Lee

And we've read scary books and watched scary movies and TV shows together. He's met monsters, ghouls, and demons on the page and on…

— Anne Lamott

But what Davenport had been born into had taken so much from her, leaving her with just the wickedest and the worst. Her father…

— Brenna Yovanoff

In intimate relationships, if we start trying to be more real, it's very scary.

— Tara Brach

Sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.

— Paul Newman

I am more than what you bargained for and nothin less than real.

— Drake

But these weren't the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind…

— Ransom Riggs

I've come to the conclusion that you can't write scary books unless you're easily scared yourself.

— Mary Downing Hahn

My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the…

— Alejandro Amenabar

It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to…

— Vincent D'Onofrio

There are times when fear is not our enemy. There are times when fear is our truest, sometimes only, friend.

— Rick Yancey

They held each other and wept as the night closed its fist around their tiny shelter, and the world below them seethed with killers…

— Jonathan Maberry

It was a house for those who could not take care of themselves, for those who heard voices, who had strange thoughts and did…

— Madeleine Roux

“There was a lot of purple on the covers. Purple sold scary books better than any other color, Mike had been told.”

— Stephen King

I think being raised within a Mexican Catholic family made magical realism a very natural part of who I am as a person and…

— Daniel Olivas