Fear Quote by Douglas E. Winter

To me, the horror genre is the genre of non-denial. It's about admitting that there is evil in the world and recognizing that there…

— Scott Derrickson

“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

The horror genre is real cathartic. It allows us to bring out the things that scare us and get it out and have an…

— Kane

“It's safe to say that 'Horror,' as a fictional genre, has claim to it's own canon. There is a definite history that can be…

— William Cook

“horror MUST stimulate the reader’s mental pressure points more effectively and more consistently than other genres.”

— Joe Mynhardt

What's so exciting and unstoppable about the horror genre is that I view it all as metaphorical exploration. It's the safe place that we,…

— Mike Flanagan

Horror is a reaction; it's not a genre. Somebody's life would have to be in danger for it [story] to be a horror story.

— John Carpenter

Horror is one of the few genres - romance and comedy are the other two that come to mind - that's all emotion-driven. It's…

— Stephen R. Bissette

“At this point, a few words on this term 'horror' are perhaps called for. Some amateurs of this kind of literature engage in endless…

— Michel Parry

The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring…

— Ellen Glasgow

“Good horror is written by people who understand that fear is one of the cardinal passageways into the core of humanity. Good horror is…

— Alistair Cross

It [horror genre] never dies. It just keeps getting re­invented and it always will. Horror is a universal language; we're all afraid. We're born…

— John Carpenter