The human mind is a powerful thing in many ways, but in others it's endlessly fragile—it takes only a single moment of pure terror to tear a hole in it, like a finger through a cobweb, leaving you forever just… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
Something in my gut twisted so hard that it felt like I was being tickled by an invisible hand, and it took me a moment to realize what it was. Hope. It had been so long since I'd felt it… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone twice your size who wants to pound you into the earth - it feels as if you're being injected with darkness. It's like black water as cold as ice settling in your body where your blood… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share
It's incredible how much stamina you can find when you're fighting and enemy in battle, even if that enemy is just in your imagination. — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
You don't see heroism, humanity and hope like you do in a horror story. Horror celebrates the kind of friendship that keeps you standing… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
“With every movement the claustrophobia threatened to consume me, and several times I had to stop as the fear rang bells in my brain,… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
“Next I was plunged into a void so profound that I thought I´d gone blind.” — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
Gettting to know your characters is so much more important than plotting. Working out every detail of your story in advance, especially when you don't yet know your main characters, always seems a little too much like playing God. You're working out your characters' lives, their destiny, before they've had a chance to discover who they are and what kind… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share
“The tea-infused steam was another smell that brought back a fistful of memories, and I let them come. Better to open the door for… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
“It surged inside me, setting every nerve ending alight, making me feel like I could snap my fingers and stop time, cut the stars… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
