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“So in that sense, I and my fellow horror writers are absorbing and defusing all your fears and anxieties and insecurities and taking them…

— Stephen King

“True horror is not in our stories, it's in our lives. Stories help us process it.”

— Ksenia Anske

“Horror is the only genre where you don't have to explain everything. Things happen just because and that alone makes it scary.”

— R.A. Horn

“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

“I think horror, when done well, is one of the most direct and honest ways to get to the core of the human experience…

— Alistair Cross

“True horror, you see, comes not from the savagery of the unexpected, but from the corruption of everyday objects, spaces.”

— Noah Hawley

“The horror is other people. The things they think up to do to you.”

— Charles Frazier

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

— Stephen King

“We are drawn to horror even as we recoil from it.”

— Jodi Picoult

“Nowadays, it's hard to find the best horror and to be interesting and to be afraid of it!”

— Deyth Banger

“Automatically, like all healthy, normal beings, I deny the existence of horror...”

— Leland Hall

“A horror writer is one who is not only willing to look into the darkest of shadows...but to reach into them too.”

— Thomas Scopel