I think horror should have occult elements, not as its subject but as its ambition. It is a machine that destroys illusion.… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
A horror novel should reveal to you that you are falling apart. That there are ways your imagination can be made different.… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
I believe the book should be something you protect yourself from by returning to your life. But it has threatened your life.… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
“It's strange to sleep. Sleep is a mysterious thing even in the simplest of people. When you're sleepy, you seem to be getting sick,… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
“Maybe I went a bit too far, but that’s what people want now. There’s an expectation that children be treated poorly in their literature.… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
“And now, no matter what I thought I had done or why I did it, it has become completely untrue because of what I… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
I think horror should have occult elements, not as its subject but as its ambition. It is a machine that destroys illusion. I, of… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
A horror novel should reveal to you that you are falling apart. That there are ways your imagination can be made different. Can threaten… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
The books are recordings; that's what they have to be, recordings of the writing. They have to be happening to me. — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
My fear, as a writer, is that I am a curiosity. That I can only bring you this peculiar condition from far away, from… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
“They stay like this, in silence, both aware that they have created something together. Defiance. A pushing back of a darkness that no one… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
As a kid, I couldn't articulate it but I sought out things that could. At first it was horror films - extreme panic and… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
I believe the book should be something you protect yourself from by returning to your life. But it has threatened your life. Not by… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
“It’s my job really, to help you, my reader, in accepting things as real that aren’t. Most books try to get you to accept… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
I am interested in giving the reader true vertigo. I look to deteriorating consciousness as our inevitable condition and I am trying to make… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
