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When the world uncovers some dark disguise,
Embrace the darkness with averted eyes. — Thomas Ligotti

Perhaps I should not hope to convey in mere words the unutterable hideousness that can dwell in absolute silence and barren immensity. — H.P. Lovecraft

It's your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make you crazy, just different. — Cassandra Clare

The bloody times, the horror, will just be history to them, words on a page, so how will they dare to judge? Very easily, I should imagine. — Storm Constantine

Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule. — Tom Sizemore

Because what is the face, what finally, is the skin over the flesh, a cover, a disguise, rouge for the insupportable horror of our living nature. — Elena Ferrante

Everyone knows a Wixen when we smell one. You smell the prettiest, a mixture of strawberries, sex and deceit. Dior should bottle it. — Beverley Price

She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death. — Bram Stoker

Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up — Stephen King

The easiest way to disturb or create an element of horror is to take a positive emotion and put it in a negative situation, to create dissonance. — R.R. Hood

I did love horror films from the '70s and '80s. That was my sweet spot. — Drew Barrymore

Automatically, like all healthy, normal beings, I deny the existence of horror ... — Leland Hall

I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary. — Sergio Aragones

The calendar is intolerable to all wisdom, the horror of all astronomy, and a laughing stock from a mathematician's point of view. — Roger Bacon

God isn't going to scribble across the sky. The shark is gone. — Peter Benchley

I was nearly unnerved at my proximity to a nameless thing at the bottom of a pit. — H.P. Lovecraft

Here beneath the towering pines, by the river blue
Farragut will ever stand, alma mater true — Bruce A. Sarte

I tended to be drawn to the weirder, darker stuff. Horror and sci-fi anthologies. — Karen Russell

Everything written is at least in part fantasy.
Except maybe the national budget.
That's horror. — Mercedes Lackey

A plantation was a plantation; one might think one's misfortunes distinct, but the true horror lay in their universality. — Colson Whitehead

The loneliest place to spend eternity is your own life after you can't change it anymore.
Lucifer from Kevin — Bruce Jenvey

Tea Cake went out and wandered around. Saw the hand of horror on everything. — Zora Neale Hurston

The squirrelicorns contained their horror like professionals and confirmed that they understood completely. — Lisa McMann

Who gave you a gun?'
'The army.'
'Why?'
'That's what the army does, Simon. — A. Ashley Straker

I love horror movies in space. I love it when the genre switches over and what was sci-fi becomes horror. — Kirk Hammett

The horror of Time is, people don't snap out of it. — Les Murray

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray. — David Byrne

At the end of the day, a "jump scare" scares the audience for the moment. Slow burn horror ideas scare people forever. — Scott Derrickson

There's a real kind of snobbery in the U.K. about horror films. — Neil Marshall

The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping. — Cathy Guisewite

They were Siamese twins, joined at the groin by a traitorous piece of meat. — Nancy A. Collins

Horror is the awakening of repressed knowledge, something that you have known all along but kept at the periphery of awareness so that life can go on. — Matthew De Abaitua

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness. — Robert Bly

I have found that my fan base is a bit above average when compared to the common horror fan. — Adam Green

I'm getting creeped out. This it totally starting to sound like a horror flick, and everybody knows the hot chick dies first. Let's get out of here. — Maggie Stiefvater

I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence. — Fritz Lang

All things are true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live. - Peloquin — Clive Barker

Physical reality is one of the biggest horror movies of all, and you know how we love horror movies. — Thaddeus Golas

I prefer thrillers but when it's thriller/horror, I like it. The gore is not very important to me, I prefer suspense. But I like dark films. — Cecile De France

Sometimes the hardest journeys are the ones that begin with little hope. But we need to take them anyway. — Richard Finney

She resisted the urge to run, only prey ran [and] Niko had no intention on becoming prey — Kayti Nika Raet

Famine was a dirty bitch with rotten fangs, but the hunger she put in a belly bit sharp nonetheless. — T. Frohock

I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho. — Valorie Curry

The horror is other people. The things they think up to do to you. — Charles Frazier

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. — W. Somerset Maugham

The horror that is America is disgusting. — Bowe Bergdahl

My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know. The rest is no business of any man's. — John Connolly

I feel lucky that I get to read and publish stories that are not necessarily overtly horror in 'Best Horror of the Year.' — Ellen Datlow

Pictures ... flashed on her in sudden color, too much color, shocking color, the color that leaps out of black when lightning strikes at night. — Thomas Harris

I only have the quite childish horror of the grave and of nothingness — Victor Klemperer

I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning. — Quentin Tarantino

We come from the mentality, that rarely sees the horror in symmetry or the beauty in non-conformity — Shane Koyczan

Lee leaned closer to her and swore he could smell fear coming off her in waves, the way a shark smells blood in the water — Pamela K. Kinney

All she could see was her demise and it called out a tempting ruse, offering a suffering less potent than what sickened the living. — B.B. Wynter

I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with the rest of cinema. — Guillermo Del Toro

The only intelligent tactical response to life's horror is to laugh defiantly at it — Soren Kierkegaard

We're in high school. If it didn't come from the school cafeteria, we like it. — S.K.N. Hammerstone

When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies. — M. Night Shyamalan

I often stood and stared into those tunnels and thought about what happened there; how I was separated from it only by time. - The Procession — Benjamin Brindise

You think horror enters spectacularly. It doesn't. It just prosaically turns up. Even in the first seconds you know you'll find it a room. — Glen Duncan

The cold impassive stars didn't bother him so much as the gaps between them did. — Laird Barron

Through my mind, is just the horror of these people. I had been held by them, I knew how violent they were. — Patty Hearst

I've always thought the best way to teach a kid not to be scared of the dark is to fill his daylight hours with as much horror as possible. — Emo Philips

A bloody guy in overalls, wearing a straw hat, began chasing us. He held a saw, pointing it at us. We were gonna die! --The Body By the Tree — Yawatta Hosby

Apparently there is nothing in the news that falls between inhuman acts of horror and kittens. — Gary Janetti

I've always been into the horror genre, so I've seen a lot of movies with ghosts and supernatural stuff. — Meaghan Rath

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. — Stephen King

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

The book the snowman was the best book I have ever read it had suspence durring the whole book it was AWSOME!!! — R.L. Stine

It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror. — Nadine Gordimer

It's wearying, like Caliban buttonholing you in hell and telling you the struggle he's having getting along with himself. — Derek Raymond

Horror movies are all about getting your attention; you always have to be on guard. People love to be on the edge - there's nothing like a surprise. — P. J. Soles

War has crossed out the day and replaced it with horror, and now horrors are unfolding instead of days. — Zlata Filipovic

I am determined to go through the horror of this world. — Brian Epstein

It was the kind of scream that would be in a horror movie right before someone got chopped up into little bitty pieces. — Missy Lyons

The northern star changes its position every ten thousand years, but friendships can last for all eternity.
- RJPeters — R.J. Peters

Bombardment, barrage, curtain-fire, mines, gas, tanks, machine-guns, hand-grenades - words, words, but they hold the horror of the world. — Erich Maria Remarque

Sometimes its the crazy side that accomplishes things! — Christopher J. Fennell

I completely remember the horror I felt when my pits started getting hairy. I would walk with my arms pressed against my sides. — Lisi Harrison

Such is the great nature of man, it resides the true face beneath a glittering masquerade. — K. Hari Kumar

God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image. — Irving Layton

More shouts, and then my father was there, staring down at me in horror: the minor pagan god, appalled at what his worshiper had done. — Marie Brennan

Then the horror overcame me, and I sank down unconscious. CHAPTER — Bram Stoker

I don't share lots of the phobias that horror movies tap into. I don't mind spiders or snakes or darkness. — Helen Mirren

It illuminated a vision Dante could not have imagined in his wildest nightmares, nor Poe in the grasp of an uncontrollable delirium. — Alan Dean Foster

No amount of therapy can replace the joy of revenge writing. — Mylo Carbia

The cold feel of the leather...
Peeking at the world from my other eye...
It was strangely exciting... — Sui Ishida

Horror is about dreams and heightened states. It really is about taking away the logic on some level and getting right to the emotion of something. — Tim Minear

All in all, he thought it was a bad idea to get involved with the woman investigating his ex's possible suicide with intent to haunt. — Marybeth Niederkorn

Just behind his jaw bones a tiny movement was perceptible, like the movement of gills in a fish. — John Collier

The things a man sees when he ain't got a gun.
Watson the Caretaker — Stephen King

When I was 12, I had a fondness for horror movies like the 'Wolfman.' The boy next door said I should read Poe. — Donald Hall

You see, the strangeness of my case is that now I no longer fear the invisible, I'm terrified by reality. — Jean Lorrain

At every step the vast majority have expressed horror at the idea of an aggressive war. — Paul Robeson

The delight of populists and the horror of the European Union, Switzerland voted in favour of quotas for EU migrants. — Anonymous

As if the cops expected the big gray sedan to start up by itself, like that old Plymouth in the horror movie, — Stephen King

The whole horror of the situation is that he now has a human heart, not a dog's heart. And about the rottenest heart in all creation! — Mikhail Bulgakov

How much blood and horror is at the bottom of all 'good things'! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Horror, of all the genres, is the only one that can provoke an involuntary visceral reaction. — Stephen Graham Jones

I don't think you need to spend $40 million to be creepy. The best horror films are the ones that are much less endowed. — George A. Romero