Horror Quote by James Herbert

I think I'm less and less labelled a 'horror writer'. The books tend not to go on horror shelves any more, and when they…

— Clive Barker

I love horror movies. I consider myself a horror author, sometimes.

— Nick Antosca

Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.

— Dean Koontz

I thought I was going to be a horror story writer. My influences were horror writers, like Rich Matheson, Ray Bradbury and Bram Stoker.

— Christopher Moore

I didn't want to write unless I could say, and think for myself. I looked to peers that I not only respected but those…

— Karen Walton

I don't write that much horror. People tell me my books are scary, but they're not really; I don't go there.

— Melissa de la Cruz

I wanted to write a horror story. But in some ways, I have always thought of myself as a kind of ghost-story/horror writer, though…

— Dan Chaon

Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch.

— George Stephen

I never actually wanted to write horror, oddly enough. It was a kind of misnomer, because I didn't ever actually write horror in the…

— Peter James

I don't necessarily consider myself a horror filmmaker.

— Ari Aster

Horror writers are specialists in the worst case scenario

— Richard Laymon

I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.

— Sarah Pinborough