Belief Quote by Robert Eggers

It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.

— H. P. Lovecraft

We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect…

— Terri Windling

Dark Fantasy is just another way of saying Horror.

— Terry Pratchett

Most people say about graveyards: "Oh, it's just a bunch of dead people. It's creepy." But for me, there's an energy to it that…

— Tim Burton

And the great appeal of horror fiction through the ages is that it serves as a rehearsal for our own deaths.

— Steven King

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

Darkness is a lot of what art is and certainly in our community a lot of it is people sort of wrestling with their…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

If you look at the horror genre, that work is all about making people uncomfortable by stimulating our fear of death.

— Ottessa Moshfegh

Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we…

— Upamanyu Chatterjee

Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered something dreadful…

— Eckhart Tolle

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

— Jean Paul

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