Even the smallest of things can be frightening in…

“Has anybody ever written a horror pop-up book? The center of the book pops up and opens the gate to the elder gods. Of…

— Neil Leckman

If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy, I've always written horror stories and monster stories, right…

— George R. R. Martin

“I don’t believe I write horror as a means to conquer fear, no. As for my childhood fears, I mostly feared real threats such…

— Alistair Cross

Nietzsche, who you don't spend too much time with after the age of seventeen, did have that one great line about "he who stares…

— Henry Rollins

“It is impossible to describe what is necessary, to those who do not know what horror means. You must make a friend of horror.”

— Col. Walter E. Kurtz

“As much as I hungered to learn more about my past, I was afraid of learning other things too--mostly about death and despair, and…

— Courtney Allison Moulton

“And narcissists don’t love themselves. They hardly have any selves to begin with. They put all their energy into the fake image that they…

— Koren Zailckas

“Girl Without Hands Walking through the ruins on your way to work that do not look like ruins with the sunlight pouring over the…

— Margaret Atwood

“He shifts and my eyes shatter into thousands of pieces that ricochet around the room, capturing a million snapshots, a million moments in time.…

— Tahereh Mafi

I am learning, as I make my way through my first continent, that it is remarkably easy to do things, and much more frightening…

— Ted Simon

Well, very splendid and very frightening. But splendid things are often frightening. Sometimes, it's the fright that makes them splendid at all.

— Catherynne M. Valente

I wanted my wild things to be frightening.

— Maurice Sendak

“Most of the questions people asked you, he felt, were there to fill up dead space, curtail your movements, divert your energy and attention.…

— Michael Chabon

“There's a space in me. It's a dead space. I know that, because I can't feel anything. But that's what hurts, the nothingness. It's…

— J.C. Burke

When you start writing songs on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're left with,…

— Jack Antonoff