“Birds chirped and hawked in the distance. A group of them, maybe vultures, circled the sky. Rae glanced at the blanket. Those… — Yawatta Hosby Copy Share Image
“Only I was capable of saving her now, and that, as far as anyone could argue, may have made me worse than… — Jared S. Anderson Copy Share Image
“With horror he perceived that, by uniting himself as he had with the dead, he had cut himself off from the living.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My parents were great parents, but for some bizarre reason they allowed me to watch whatever I wanted on TV, we had… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
“Matthew licked the fright induced sweat from his victim’s temple then bit a quarter sized piece of flesh from her right cheek… — Howard Dunkley Copy Share Image
Clearly, the works of John Carpenter and Sam Raimi are front and center here. Argento is definitely there. But even stuff like… — Drew Goddard Copy Share Image
I was never a big fan of horror. I got into it making these films, but I don't ever see myself doing… — Caity Lotz Copy Share Image
“Behold, if you are in doubt as to my religion, (know that) I serve not those whom you serve besides Allah, but… — Compton Gage Copy Share Image
What is scary to me is silly to somebody else. CG isn't scary to me. It's like comedy - comedy and horror… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
I came to terms with living mostly in a world of horror pictures or genre pictures. I have had a few chances… — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
[British television series] Hammer House of Horror. I used to really enjoy these one-off stories where often there would be an incredibly… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him: that which he himself is, his essence, is obviously being annihilated… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“...Don't be surprised, and I say it darkly, do not be surprised if you lose your Luke in this cause; perhaps Mrs.… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“Lionel was filled with awful remorse. He asked where had Thomas been last seen, and the boy told him he was headed… — L. Joseph Shosty Copy Share Image
No real fairytale scared me, but Freddy Krueger did. 'Nightmare on Elm Street' scared the living hell out of me, but no… — Lana Parrilla Copy Share Image
... the Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the failure to act against Turkey is to condone it… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
For me, the social thriller is the thriller in which the fears, the horrors, and the thrills are coming from society. They're… — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, 'Fine,'… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
I think I approach my choices much the way I approach the way I consume movies and TV and stuff. I like… — Jessica Pare Copy Share Image
When I need the idea, I can find it immediately. I have a horror of rewriting or deleting; the parts of my… — Ruggero Leoncavallo Copy Share Image
The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick… — Jackie Earle Haley Copy Share Image
Down the road a bit, I would like to write a couple of stand-alone adult novels, especially in the horror genre. I've… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
Child, that is why all the rest are now a horror to her. That is what happens to those who pluck and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“After all, is it not wondrous that we are allowed to be both witnesses and victims of the sepulchral pomp of wasting… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Japanese horror films take the business of being frightening seriously. There is no attempt at postmodernism or humour. They are incredibly melancholy,… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
It is so hard nowadays to find a movie that I like. I don't mind blood and gore. But I mind when… — Cassandra Peterson Copy Share Image
Then my first film was something called Cannibal Girls, which sounds like a horror movie but was actually kind of a goofy… — Ivan Reitman Copy Share Image
Often, in horror films, the single most effective device for building a sense of scariness is the soundtrack: the clanking of chains,… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“They were the same. All of them, monsters. Only Mazen had been innocent, and now he would be haunted by imaginary blood… — Chelsea Abdullah Copy Share Image
As an adult, the only people who care about horror movies are academics. No one loves to talk about horror films more… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
In earlier cultures with pagan belief systems, light and dark were celebrated equally, people were around death a lot. In contemporary Western… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
“While other kids ran to their parents at night afraid of monsters, alone in the darkness Brianna befriended those monsters and called… — Aparajita Yadav Copy Share Image
Maybe she'd seen too many Japanese horror movies, and maybe it was just a tingle of warning from generations of superstitious ancestors,… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
“She had always given too much of her life over to relationships, and they’d never quite worked out. Now she was simplifying… — Jack Ketchum Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing, I think, to totally balance comedy and horror, and to do it in a way that is about… — Fred Hechinger Copy Share Image
“Thrall is a feast of both visceral and existential horror – the gut tightens and the mind reels. Mary Sangiovanni joins that… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
“I have seen an evil thing this night,' he said; 'I have seen how the dead drink the blood of the living.… — Francis Marion Crawford Copy Share Image
[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image