Aesthetic Quote by Zadie Smith

It's not in good taste to have talking ghosts in a grown-up novel.

— Zadie Smith

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty…

— Tony Parsons

When so much is left to the listener's imagination, it is bound to be more scary. But our stories are not just to frighten;…

— Larry Fessenden

“Remember that ghosts can read your mind and recognize your fear, and if you don’t respect them by entering their world with knowledge and…

— James Van Praagh

My fear, as a writer, is that I am a curiosity. That I can only bring you this peculiar condition from far away, from…

— Tony Burgess

At best you can hold death at bay, you can pretend it isn't there; but to deny it totally is a sickness. And I…

— Clive Barker

There's a young Danish guy who has done a lot of work from an evolutionary perspective, Mathias Clasen. Basically, his argument is we've evolved…

— Brian Boyd

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

— Ottessa Moshfegh

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even…

— Stendhal

You need to be invested in what happens. The characters are your conduit to the story. Many modern horror films are fun but not…

— Jane Goldman

“The only way ghosts can hurt you is through your own fear”

— Cornelia Funke

It is within you that the ghosts acquire voices.

— Italo Calvino