“He curled up, twitching and spasming, the pain stormtrooping through his entire body in agonizing, dizzying, pounding waves. He vomited, but it… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
“Krisztina played the song. It was a lament made of eight notes, repeated. It was an empty melody. It sounded elemental too;… — Simon Avery Copy Share Image
“I was caged within a four dimensional cube that eclipsed the world around me in an icy mist. I screamed; begging someone,… — J.D. Stroube Copy Share Image
Promise me you’ll marry me. Not now. Someday. Because I need to know.” Claire felt a flutter inside, like a bird trying… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
When I write my novels, I'm not writing them to make political points. I'm writing them because I passionately love monsters and… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“When I was cooking I enjoyed a sense of being ‘out’ of myself. The action of dicing vegetables and warming oil made… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
There was a cinema called The Orient outside the community centre where we rehearsed in Six Ways, and whenever it showed a… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
“There are things so horrible that even the dark is afraid of them. Most people don't know this and this is just… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Yes, this was a haunted place. He had read about certain materials absorbing the sounds of their surroundings like divots in a… — Aaron Dries Copy Share Image
“We deal with so many nightmares on a regular basis. When I’m watching a horror movie, there’s a pattern, a sense of… — Katherine McIntyre Copy Share Image
'The Blair Witch Project' is great for motion sickness. The first time you see it, it is extremely creepy. The first time… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
When I first saw 'House on Haunted Hill' as a kid in Baltimore, and the skeleton went out on the wire, and… — John Waters Copy Share Image
In a Western or a thriller there is often room for reflection upon the coercive necessities; even, occasionally, some attempt to pose… — Andrew Tudor Copy Share Image
When you're watching an action movie, you experience an action movie more outside of the aquarium, you're out of the aquarium looking… — James Wan Copy Share Image
Operating-room errors hold a special terror for patients, if only because they seem like the most avoidable kind of complications. The occasional… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you saw there made you… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Yet, despite all, it is a difficult thing to admit the existence of ghosts in a coldly factual world. One's very instincts… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
I grew up as an artist. Science fiction allows for design and creatures and guns and all the stuff that I like… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
There has been considerable comment over the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a soldier. I am afraid this does not… — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
“All the suffering and torment wrought at places of execution, in torture chambers, madhouses, operating theatres, under the arches of bridges in… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Carroll was eleven years old when he saw The Haunting in The Oregon Theater. He had gone with his cousins, but when… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
The gross perversion and destruction of motherhood by the abortionist filled me with indignation, and awakened active antagonism. That the honorable term… — Elizabeth Blackwell Copy Share Image
“Miss Millick wondered just what had happened to Mr. Wran. He kept making the strangest remarks when she took dictation. Just this… — Fritz Leiber Copy Share Image
I might inform those humanitarians who have a nightmare of new and needless babies (for some humanitarians have that sort of horror… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We human beings cause monstrous conditions, but precisely because we cause them we soon learn to adapt ourselves to them. Only if… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
I'm not a crazy horror fan. At that time i wasn't really looking to do something like that. But I thought to… — Len Wiseman Copy Share Image
“If I catch you, I might do anything. I might strip the skin from your bones as I drain you dry. Or… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“Underhill saw Sorrowmouth stooped in the doorway with his bowl and thorn, mottled skin burnished gold in the lamp glow, beady eyes… — Simon Avery Copy Share Image
I had an idea for a medical conspiracy thriller. Since it was non-horror, I didn't want the publishers and editors bringing a… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things - naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror - are too terrible… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
[regarding US conquest of the Philippines] "I turn green in bed at midnight if I think of the horror of a year's… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“I think Poe's quite good, actually. The whole casual horror thing. Like someone standing next to you and screaming their head off… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
A poet articulating the dreads and horrors of our time is necessary in order to make readers understand what is happening, really… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
This was exactly what the girl had most dreaded all her life and had scrupulously avoided until now: lovemaking without emotion or… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I want to be the apostle of self destruction. I want my book to affect man's reason, his emotions, his nerves, his… — Leonid Andreyev Copy Share Image
Children became an obsessive theme in Victorian culture at the same time that they were being exploited as never before. As the… — C. Sommerville Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I think the thing I remembered most about The Exorcist was Linda Blair being possessed by the… — Marilyn Manson 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
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
“...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