Horror Quote by Paul G. Tremblay

What I see as the particularly exciting prospect for writing horror fiction as we go forward is setting stories in more internal landscapes than…

— Andrew Pyper

Horror writers can write about everything in the real world that a mainstream novelist can--plus the supernatural, which is the most fertile field for…

— Bentley Little

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 writers are specialists in the worst case scenario

— Richard Laymon

The genre of horror is really just a way to manage much larger, much more terrifying realities in our daily worlds.

— Karyn Kusama

“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

What's so exciting and unstoppable about the horror genre is that I view it all as metaphorical exploration. It's the safe place that we,…

— Mike Flanagan

If you focus on the humanity of your stories, your characters, then the horror will be stronger, scarier. Without the humanity, the horror becomes…

— Don Roff

You must worry about the truth of your characters and that it fits your vision. The rest will come naturally if you've done your…

— Juan Antonio Bayona

“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 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

The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring…

— Ellen Glasgow