Top 39 Horror Authors Quotes
#1. Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch.
George Stephen
#2. I tell everyone who asks me about writing ... almost everyone has an idea for a book, and some even have a great ending, but it's that 290 or so pages in between that are tough!
Brooklyn Hudson
#3. Some Murders Shouldn't Be Investigated.
Thomas Amo
#4. I think horror can and should be classy. I enjoy seeing it raised up not lowered down to the lowest common denominator.
There's prejudice against the horror genre and I think sometimes that's the fault of the authors involved.
Carole Gill
#5. No amount of therapy can replace the joy of revenge writing.
Mylo Carbia
#6. You name drop authors like other girls drop boy bands.
Danielle Paige
#8. If you work in The Dark, you MUST live in The Light.
Mylo Carbia
#9. The two of them had discovered it was all right to open the closets ... as long as you didn't poke too far back in them. Because things might still be lurking there, ready to bite.
Stephen King
#10. 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
#11. I don't remember ever signing up for weird. It just sort of happened.
Justin Alcala
#12. Writing is a lonely act. When two writers come together to write a horror story it can be crazy. You can't step on a mine and hope it doesn't explode.
Ben Oliveira
#14. The corridor didn't seem long enough to contain so much blackness.
'Passing Through Peacehaven
Ramsey Campbell
#15. Which is the true nightmare, the horrific dream that you have in your sleep or the dissatisfied reality that awaits you when you awake?
Justin Alcala
#16. Some things you cannot see or explain, but they are there, lurking.
Some things dwell in the dark: waiting ... watching ... haunting.
Sometimes evil takes on many forms, many faces.
And silence is the last thing you hear, when it's already too late.
THE SILENCE
Barry Brickey
#17. Wolves and those who see them are shot on sight.
Peter Straub
#18. We stopped looking in the shadows, when we realised that WE were the monsters that we are afraid of. I want to take these monsters, give them a voice and put them back under our beds, in our closets and in the shadows, back where we are most afraid of them.
Rob Shepherd
#19. Sulphurous wind gusted in his wake; the dust of the street swirled and the folds of his black coat flapped against his thin body.
A.F. Stewart
#20. When he shut himself in his apartment he found that he hoped he was waiting for nothing at all.
Ramsey Campbell
#21. Our very existence refuses your laws and
your science, your religions and your
philosophies.
B.E. Scully
#22. She really needed to stop reading romantic suspense because now horror stories from authors like Shiloh Walker were on her mind and a little too vivid for what she needed at the moment.
Carrie Ann Ryan
#23. Good horror offers a sense of an upended, lawless world and that's appealing to anyone who grew up feeling like an outsider.
Christopher Rice
#24. Did I never tell you Sassicaia makes me horny?
Steve Emmett
#25. As the helpless vampire watched the transformation, it started screaming. It was still screaming when his rows of razor sharp teeth sank into its throat.
Alan Kinross
#27. The biggest difference between writing a movie and writing a novel? No one ever tries to sleep with me to get into one of my novels.
Mylo Carbia
#28. Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.
R.L. Stine
#29. As soon as Todd drove off the motorway it vanished from the mirror, and so did the sun across the moor.
Ramsey Campbell
#30. I stumble across the sea of tarmac, finding pavement, concealment and a brick wall. Palms brace against the scrubby surface. My stomach churns and then bubbles over, burning my throat as acrid yellow acid spills from my lips in frothy discomposure. It splatters the pavement like a spray of blood.
Rebecca Clare Smith
#33. The stink of rot and ruin, of old dreams, broken screams, and wicked, dirty little things.
Damien Angelica Walters
#35. Horror writers shouldn't play nice. Disturb & unnerve your reader. Make them uncomfortable, but not so much they stop reading.
Pamela Morris
#36. My original intent was to write a horror story about someone who loses his mind and slowly begins to unravel. The story, as I envisioned it, would evoke horror within the context of psychological decay, entropy.
Jupiter Cutter
#37. No one will ever write a horror novel as scary as reading about my symptoms on WebMD.
John Raptor
#38. In the rapture of my enormous humiliation I live in your warm life, and you shall die - die sweetly die - into mine.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
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