Beats Quote by Laird Barron

Intensely vivid characters, terrible crimes, and a brutal deep-frozen landscape all prove beyond a reasonable doubt that cold nurtures good and evil as readily…

— Lee Child

With James Reese’s vivid and chilling novel, readers will gain a whole new appreciation of two gothic landmarks, Dracula and Jack the Ripper. Not…

— Matthew Pearl

“Mere grimness is as easy as grinning; but it requires something to put a handsome face on a story. Narratives become of suspicious merit…

— Leigh Hunt

“DeBow’s Review noted with contempt. “It is a melancholy exemplification of the facility with which a philanthropist, who devotes himself exclusively to the eradication…

— Brenda Wineapple

His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerged charred doves.

— Marisha Pessl

“If there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims…

— Antonin Artaud

“A writer will seal his own coffin, And the interests of readers will soften, If the author insists On the usual twists, And he…

— Mark Grenier

“The slaughter was slow, every single act carried out with precision and care. Once he’d sheared her like a lamb, she was left on…

— Lily White

“Life had suddenly become too hideous a burden for him to bear. The dreadful death of the unlucky beater, shot in the thicket like…

— Oscar Wilde

Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light - and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau -…

— Nadine Gordimer

“Character is much easier kept than recovered, and that man, if any such there be, who, from sinister views, or littleness of soul, lends…

— Thomas Paine

“Even more than black death he dreaded the gaudy gate: the mask of sweet red rubber, the violet overhead lights, the rattling ride through…

— Adam Begley