Books Quote by Richard Flanagan

Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror…

— Richard Flanagan

“Horror is the only genre where you don't have to explain everything. Things happen just because and that alone makes it scary.”

— R.A. Horn

“A whole world of horror is contained in the process of definition.”

— John Holloway

All the horror is in just this -- that there is no horror. . . .

— Aleksandr Kuprin

“The most incomprehensible aspect of horror is that there is nothing to understand. Horror is incredibly shallow and common. One only needs two things…

— Albert Sánchez Piñol

“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

Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes ones fear, but the human being who has contact with it.

— Andrew Pyper

But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.

— Anonymous

Horror is about dreams and heightened states. It really is about taking away the logic on some level and getting right to the emotion…

— Tim Minear

Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes one's fear, but the human being who has contact with it.

— Andrew Pyper

Horror is a reaction; it's not a genre. Somebody's life would have to be in danger for it [story] to be a horror story.

— John Carpenter

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

— Karyn Kusama