The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
...he shrunk more and more from the realities of life and above all from the society of his day which he regarded… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
Hell is out of fashion - institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs,… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Our great problem, is that children now know whatever they want to know - at the press of a button they can… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Twenty-two pages is not a lot of space. Believe me. Having written a bazillion comics, I still find myself more often than… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be with me at… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“(Washington) Irving was only the first of the writers of the American ghostly tale to recognize that the supernatural, exactly because its… — Howard Kerr Copy Share Image
If you can get the audience to talk to the screen, I just thought that was so cool, and I wanted to… — Kevin D. Williamson Copy Share Image
I never used to watch horror films because I was a nervous type. I believed all the publicity about The Exorcist when… — Simon Boswell Copy Share Image
“At this point, a few words on this term 'horror' are perhaps called for. Some amateurs of this kind of literature engage… — Michel Parry Copy Share Image
What I like about the Carpenter take on The Thing is the fact that it just has so much suspense. It seemed… — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Copy Share Image
Buddy Hackett [was] talking - this is Hackett, not me - about the Virgin Mary, a limerick sort of thing, and all… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
Silence Of The Lambs is a fantastic film. It's a horror film, and it's an incredibly well-told film that is about point… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
Everyone I knew, including my new friends in Jordan, expressed horror at the realities of the Holocaust. But they resented, as I… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
Right," I scoffed, "Alpha Yam Ergo." Adrian nodded solemnly. "A very old and prestigious society." "I've never heard of them," said the… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Seems there are a lot of things I could have and should have done. I never imagined Id be the dumb dude… — Nate Copy Share Image
'Poltergeist' was really the film that really scarred but fascinated me with puppets and dolls, clowns, and stuff like that. I've always… — James Wan Copy Share Image
“All of us had problems, it seemed, whose sources were untraceable, crossing over one another like the trajectories of countless raindrops in… — Thomas Ligotti 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
I have a horror of tags and labels. I don't understand, for instance, how people can talk about Bergman's "symbolism". Far from… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“The horror of the Same Old Thing is one of the most valuable passions we have produced in the human heart—an endless… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Take an old man's word; there's nothing worse than a muddle in all the world. It is easy to face Death and… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“You have the right to remain silent,' the big cop said in his robot's voice. 'If you do not choose to remain… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When it comes to horror there's a strange need to analyze. When "evil children" fad happened, there was The Exorcist and The… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Do not be so ridiculous, I can more easily find you someone else.” Gripping the bars of his prison so strongly that… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
The good news from the U.S. military survey of focus groups is that Iraqis do accept the Nuremberg principles. They understand that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
As an adult, I really don't watch much horror, to be honest. I mean, I like a good thrill. Thrillers are my… — Corey Feldman Copy Share Image
“Romance is not the giving of flowers, or any other gift. It is a way of life, a way of being. Romance… — Shane K.P. O'Neill Copy Share Image
I was asked in an interview once: You're writing another book with a female lead? Aren't you afraid you're going to be… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
“The rivers had been drained overnight and what was left were things no person should have to image let alone see. She… — Auden Johnson Copy Share Image
“Good horror is written by people who understand that fear is one of the cardinal passageways into the core of humanity. Good… — Alistair Cross Copy Share Image
The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
My earliest memories of horror are 'Friday the 13th Part 2,' John Carpenter's 'The Thing,' 'Halloween,' 'An American Werewolf in London,' and… — Adam Green Copy Share Image
“I had lied to myself from the very beginning, deceived myself into believing that I was being fanciful and overly imaginative. Surely… — Melika Dannese Lux Copy Share Image
Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
“You want to know how to stop this killer? Forgive yourself, and he’ll disappear from your life forever.” “Thanks. I’ll be sure… — Jeremy C. Shipp Copy Share Image
Let the advocate of animal food, force himself to a decisive experiment on its fitness, and as Plutarch recommends, tear a living… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Brian Turner writes as only a soldier can, of terror and compassion, hurt and horror, sympathy and desire. He takes us into… — Andrew Himes Copy Share Image