Almost Quote by Dustin Yellin

I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it,…

— Florence Welch

I tended to be drawn to the weirder, darker stuff. Horror and sci-fi anthologies.

— Karen Russell

I realised that today we are very much interested in reading about subjects that would have also interested people in the 1500s: ghosts, demons…

— Deborah Harkness

When I was younger, I loved graveyards. They weren't spooky so much as mysterious. Each tombstone another story to uncover. Another life to learn…

— Pseudonymous Bosch

I've always been fascinated by books. When I was young, my grandfather used to hand out a book - which would be anything from…

— Ashwin Sanghi

Death's just something that inspires me, not something that pulls me down. I used to get called morbid at school. I have always loved…

— Damien Hirst

Yeah, like, when I look back on my life, I just remember back what happened in '74, or something. It seems like only the…

— Gregg Allman

I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have…

— Kate Atkinson

I like all sorts of things, not necessarily just Victorian. Even though I tend to read a lot of Victorian novels, I like a…

— Colin Meloy

I grew up really loving old-school horror such as 'Halloween' and 'The Birds.'

— Maika Monroe

I love working with genre. And to me, the Victorian novel is the flourishing ancestor I'm always trying to access when I write.

— Jennifer Egan

I have a long, complicated history with horror.

— Panos Cosmatos