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Horror Quotes by Stephen King

70 Horror quotes by Stephen King

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A cold wind blows snow across a porch as a haunted hotel watches, setting a spooky scene. He mentions that we tell scary tales to help us handle the real things that frighten us. He also talks about wanting to write a new supernatural horror story after a long break.

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“Horror spawns horror”

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“It ain't the blows we're dealt that matter, but the ones we survive.”

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“Never will you talk to me like that again.”

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“Death in the horror movies is when the monsters get you.”

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“like that old Plymouth in the horror movie,”

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“There’s an idea that hell is other people. My idea is that it might be repetition.”

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We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

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“Pack up all my care and woe, blackbird, bye-bye”

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“Horror’s a worm that needs to be coughed out before it breeds.”

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“Maybe this isn't home, nor ever was- maybe home is where I have to go tonight. Home is the place where when…

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I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of…

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The ghost story movie that scared me the most was The Changeling with George C. Scott. I think that's sometimes overlooked, but…

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“Perhaps at the end, when the masks of horror were laid aside, there was nothing with which the human mind could not…

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“Those aren't doors, and they're not opening. Those are crypts, Richie. They're cracking open and the vampires you thought were dead are…

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The first movie I ever saw was a horror movie. It was Bambi. When that little deer gets caught in a forest…

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And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a…

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There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit…

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“When Stephen King elaborated on his inspirations for his novel "Carrie" he draws from a time when he was a young man,…

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“If there are ten thousand medieval peasants who create vampires by believing them real, there may be one–probably a child–who will imagine…

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Everybody wants to psychoanalyze horror. They don't want to psychoanalyze a book like Gay Talese's "Sex with Your Neighbor" [sic] or something…

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By writing a horror novel where this inexplicable disorder takes over in our ordered lives, you make order look better by comparison.…

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There are a lot of people in the field [ of horror stories] that I do read. There is a lot of…

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The horror genre is an extremely delicate thing. You can talk to filmmakers and even psychologists who've studied the genre, and even…

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“In the end, though, it's all about giving back the teeth that the current 'sweetie-vamp' craze has, by and large, stolen from…

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“I discovered news of old horrors in old books; read intelligence of old atrocities in old periodicals; always in the back of…

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“There are always worse things waiting. You think you have seen the most terrible thing, the one that coalesces all your nightmares…

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“For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. Don’t we…

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I have always felt a little bit uncomfortable with question [why I'm write these stories]. It's not a question that you would…

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“Last reason for reading horror: it’s a rehearsal for death. It’s a way to get ready. People say there’s nothing sure but…

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“October 6, 2017 “Here I sit next to the telephone. I put my free hand on it . . . let it slide down . . . touch…

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There were no horror movies or horror books to speak of in the '40s. I picked the '50s because that pretty well…

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There's two kinds of evil that horror fiction always deals with. One kind is the sort of evil that comes from inside…

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“Here is something I learned in 1922: there are always worse things waiting. You think you have seen the most terrible thing,…

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“Donald Trump is worse than any horror story I've written.”

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I was built with a love of the night and the unquiet coffin.

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“Brace d'inverno, I capelli tuoi, Dove il mio cuore brucia.”

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“up by itself, like that old Plymouth in the horror movie,”

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“He felt more crypts cracking open inside of him; the stench he smelled was not decayed bodies but decayed memories, and that…

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I thought it was great fun to scare people. I also knew it was socially acceptable because there were a lot of…

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“God, you had enough time to have been through it three times. You've been through my stuff. I bet you over and let one…

“Flakes of snow swirled and danced across the porch. The Overlook faced it as it had for nearly three-quarters of a century, its darkened…

“In that instant it all seemed to come clear to him- it came in a grisly flash of light, and he realized that the…

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“Death . . . but not for you. That was what Walter, clever as Satan even at the end, had said. A lawyer’s answer . . . so close to…

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“Climb aboard, Jonesy. I'm going to send you up where the air is rare and the view is much more than fair.”