Fruit salad Quote by Diane Hoh

“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

“horror stories in many ways touch us even more deeply. Because they remind us, that despite all our veneers of civilization and all our…

— Peter James

“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

“I write about the scariest monsters: The ones inside us all. And the ones that want to eat what is inside us all.”

— Aaron Marcusson

“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

“The best horror novels open up, "It was beautiful summer day and the smell of flowers emanated throughout the air.”

— Justin Alcala

“Horror is not unimaginable, it has neither the face of a monster nor the bat-wings of a demon. It is calm and tranquil, and…

— J.M.G. Le Clézio

“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

“Horror writers shouldn't play nice. Disturb & unnerve your reader. Make them uncomfortable, but not so much they stop reading.”

— Pamela Morris

“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

“Any writer of horror needs to at least have a good, solid love of the genre. Also, good horror writers need to have a…

— Alistair Cross