Creepy-quotes Quote by A.K. Kuykendall

“So in that sense, I and my fellow horror writers are absorbing and defusing all your fears and anxieties and insecurities and taking them…

— Stephen King

The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring…

— Ellen Glasgow

“A horror writer is one who is not only willing to look into the darkest of shadows...but to reach into them too.”

— Thomas Scopel

“Horror is not a genre, it is an emotion. It is a progressive form of fiction, one that evolves to meet the fears and…

— Douglas E. Winter

“I think horror, when done well, is one of the most direct and honest ways to get to the core of the human experience…

— Alistair Cross

“There are those who don't understand the nobility of horror fiction. 'Isn't there enough horror in the world?' they ask. For all other forms…

— Anonymous

“Readers love fantasy, but we need horror. Smart horror. Truthful horror. Horror that helps us make sense of a cruelly senseless world.”

— Brian K. Vaughan

“Writers (of supernatural fiction), who used to strive for awe and achieve fear, now strive for fear and achieve only disgust.”

— David Aylward

“We are drawn to horror even as we recoil from it.”

— Jodi Picoult

“Everyone rushes wherever his instincts impel him, the populace swarms like insects over a corpse, poets pass by without having the time to sculpt…

— Gustave Flaubert

“horror stories in many ways touch us even more deeply. Because they remind us, that despite all our veneers of civilization and all our…

— Peter James

“Automatically, like all healthy, normal beings, I deny the existence of horror...”

— Leland Hall