Essays Quote by DJ Spooky

SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks.

— Ambrose Bierce

All the spookiness comes from giving a contemporary anachronistic sense to terms whose historical meaning is lost to us.

— Frederick C. Beiser

In his essay on the uncanny, Das Unheimliche, Freud said that the uncanny is the only feeling which is more powerfully experienced in art…

— Stanley Kubrick

I've only ever been on a long-runner with 'Spooks.'

— Nicola Walker

First and foremost one, I was never planning on doing this as a long term, so Spooky, I was in college... It was a…

— DJ Spooky

“In any event, whether a supernatural tale remains altogether fantastic or eventually modulates to the uncanny or the marvelous, the reader is faced with…

— Howard Kerr

Frankenstein can be a metaphor for abandonment, or wanting to be accepted for who you are, or not liking who you are and wanting…

— Kevin Grevioux

I've always been drawn to spooky things, to the unusual, to things that are dark but in a friendly way.

— Jane Goldman

I was a spooky kid; that was just my nature.

— Elizabeth Marvel

“Often, the monsters we create in our imagination are not nearly as frightening as the monstrous acts perpetrated by ordinary human beings in the…

— Libba Bray

I'm always interested in the spooky repurposing of everyday things.

— William Gibson

“Although I was an imaginative child, prone to nightmares, I had persuaded my parents to take me to Madame Tussauds waxworks in London, when…

— Neil Gaiman