Quotes About Gothic Horror

#1. Did you feel it? Did you feel the darkness in their souls and their countless evil deeds? Their fate was to die in my grasp, beneath the sting of my bite.

Demetri Bithanos From The Dragon Queen Series

#2. Walk with this tomorrow night. If nothing happens, then
don't come back. Forget about us, this place, but if you feel the
Nightwalker in you awaken, then return to where you belong.
Return to me, and the streets will run red with blood.

Keith Kekic

#3. Listen,
listen with your eyes,
and your lips.
Listen with your skin,
and your blood.
Can you hear us,
at the edges?

Emmanuelle De Maupassant

#4. I'd love for readers to read what books are about so that if they are expecting happy endings in dark horror novels, they won't reach for the Vallium or something worse!

Carole Gill

#5. Yet from thy lethal lips and thine alone,
Love would I drink, as dew from poison-bloom.

Clark Ashton Smith

#6. He breathed in hard. The stench of blood filled his lungs. Only now, for the first time, could he truly appreciate it.

Shane K.P. O'Neill

#7. Profanity is the expression of a lesser mind.

Shane K.P. O'Neill

#8. The stars sparkled above the mist shrouded tents and caravans of the carnival. The night crackled with an odd vibration, as if a veil of peculiarity settled over the company.

A.F. Stewart

#9. Don't get all gothic and emo on me now. - Tory

Matthew Leeth

#10. 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

#11. Girls are caterpillars while they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes; but in the meantime there are grubs and larvae, don't you see - each with their peculiar propensities, necessities and structure.

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

#12. Bodies lay strewn all around. Turkish and Wallachian warriors caught in the intimate indiscriminate embrace of death.

Shane K.P. O'Neill

#13. But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

#14. If on thoughts of death we are fed,
Thus, a coffin, became my bed.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#15. There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.

Mary Shelley

#16. The beauty of a woman is that no two are the same. They are all different. It follows then that to be successful as a lover, you cannot make love to any two in the same way.

Shane K.P. O'Neill

#17. River had never lost his cool, not since I'd know him. That was the thing about River. He was calm. Calm as a summer's day. Calm as a gentle nap in the sun. Even when girls were fainting and men were slitting their throats in front of you.

April Genevieve Tucholke

#18. You always felt they were pawns in an indifferent universe, butts of an existential joke with no punch line.

Poppy Z. Brite

#19. The world is a parable-the habitation of symbols-the phantoms of spiritual things immortal shown in material shape.

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

#20. Nico was gothic, but she was Mary Shelley gothic to everyone else's Hammer horror film gothic. They both did Frankenstein, but Nico's was real.

Peter Murphy

#21. We're in high school. If it didn't come from the school cafeteria, we like it.

S.K.N. Hammerstone

#22. All cats are gray in the dark. And besides, her actions have less to do with her, and everything to do with you.

Jaye Frances

#23. Crook your finger;
they'll come closer.
Pull the covers tighter to your chin;
in beside you they'll creep.

Emmanuelle De Maupassant

#24. There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#25. I have learned one lesson in all this and I will share it knowing it will do no one any good. The lesson is this: "There are none more complicit in one's undoing than one's own heart".

James Pratt

#26. It was so close to October that Halloween was knocking at his heart.

Barry Eysman

#27. People do not ever change. The person you see later is merely the one that was hidden from you in the beginning.
Shane KP O'Neill - The Gates Of Babylon.

Shane K.P. O'Neill

#28. Must beauty blossom, rooted in decay,
And night devour its flaming hues alway?

Clark Ashton Smith

#29. Our very existence refuses your laws and
your science, your religions and your
philosophies.

B.E. Scully

#30. At its heart, Gothic Fiction is the introvert's "Hero's Journey" where heroes and heroines must navigate the uncharted territory of the mind in order to solve the mystery of their life's adventure.

Barrymore Tebbs

#31. Admitting defeat? How un-huntress like of you.

Yvonne Nicolas

#32. The cabin in the woods is to the American Gothic what the haunted castle is to the European - the seed from which everything else ultimately grows.

Bernice M Murphy Dr

#33. Vijaya prefers to eat alone. Rob ushered her into the room and held a chair for her, then sat across from her. "Many Indians regard eating as something that should be done in private. Considering the table manners of some of our best people, one can see their point."
Patricia Frances Rowell

Patricia Frances Rowell

#34. Perhaps we only notice things when the time comes for us to pay attention to them. When they need us to see them ...

Nancy Holder

#35. He would die in this room, buried alive by the weight of his life.

Christine Fonseca