Being optimistic Quote by Lev Grossman

“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

I have read H.P. Lovecraft, and I understand why he has influenced so much of horror writing. But because of his history, I wasn't…

— Misha Green

All the fantasy writers I know have a way of dwelling on their own fears and phobias. A writer spends his life being his…

— Charles Beaumont

“Any writer of horror needs to at least have a good, solid love of the genre. Also, good horror writers need to have a…

— Alistair Cross

There are many talented and worthy writers engaging horror in new, imaginative, and yes, terrifying ways.

— Paul G. Tremblay

“When I first read Lovecraft around 1971, and even more so when I began to read about his life, I immediately knew that I…

— Thomas Ligotti

What Bradbury had that most other science-fiction writers didn't have at that time was a love for beautiful language, evocative description, and haunting phrases…

— Robert J. Sawyer

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 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

“Horror is not a genre, it is an emotion. It is a progressive form of fiction, one that evolves to meet the fears and…

— Douglas E. Winter

For me, it's very easy to write a horror movie that's just a succession of scary sequences, but it's hard to find horror movies…

— Ehren Kruger

“A horror writer is one who is not only willing to look into the darkest of shadows...but to reach into them too.”

— Thomas Scopel