Books Quote by Howard Kerr

“Supernatural fiction contains its own generic borderland: a neutral territory, which Tzvetan Todorov calls 'the fantastic,' between 'the marvelous' and 'the uncanny.' According to…

— Howard Kerr

“In telling a story one of the most successful devices for easily creating uncanny effects is to leave the reader in uncertainty whether a…

— Ernst Jentsch

I don't worry much about whether or not one of my stories contains elements of the supernatural. If I come up with what I…

— Richard Laymon

One of the great elements of the supernatural is having that mystery and letting people's imaginations run wild with it.

— Eli Roth

“The uncanny is not a literary genre. But nor is it a non-literary genre. It overflows the very institution of literature. It inhabits, haunts,…

— Nicholas Royle

“But the recurrent ambiguity of the American tale of the supernatural reveals both a fascination with the possibility of numinous experience and a perplexity…

— Howard Kerr

“For a rational, modern mind, talk of the supernatural can be disturbing—an embarrassment.”

— James Martin

“Nevertheless, the potential and actual importance of fantastic literature lies in such psychic links: what appears to be the result of an overweening imagination,…

— Franz Rottensteiner

Some acts of worldbuilding in fiction instantiate a milieu that is so culturally odd and exotic, so displaced from the audience's consensus reality in…

— Paul Di Filippo

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

“As has already been noted, fantastic literature developed at precisely the moment when genuine belief in the supernatural was on the wane, and when…

— Franz Rottensteiner

My story reflexes come less from fantasy or horror than from the darker sort of psychological thriller - not as plot-driven as most, rather…

— Graham Joyce