Top 100 Quotes About Horror Fiction
#1. I'm a fan of short horror fiction ... in fact, the most memorable horror I've read is of the short variety ... but I have a hard time pulling it off myself.
George Stephen
#2. If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.
Jennifer Weiner
#3. The standards for horror fiction should be no less than those for 'serious literary' fiction in which originality of concept, depth of characters, and attentiveness to language are vitally important.
Joyce Carol Oates
#4. Someone once asked me what I thought horror fiction did. What its purpose was . . . I replied that when I wrote horror fiction, I tried to take the improbable, the unimaginable, and the impossible, and make it seem not only possible--but inevitable.
Michael McDowell
#5. As a 13-year-old fan of horror fiction, I hadn't seen too many cities in the literature I loved. It was always small towns, or backwoods locales, or maybe the suburbs.
Victor LaValle
#6. [Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.
Clive Barker
#7. I think if you looked at the kind of ebb and flow of supernatural fiction and horror fiction, it does seem to be more popular in times when we're hammered over the head daily with threats from all angles, very real threats.
Michael Koryta
#8. I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems of death.
Clive Barker
#9. This is probably the single great subject of horror fiction: our need to cope with a mystery that can be understood only with the aid of a helpful imagination.
Stephen King
#10. Good horror fiction deals with taboos. It must always go to the limits of what is acceptable.
Clive Barker
#11. It is not unusual for the central menace of a work of horror fiction to be interpreted as a metaphor for the larger fears of a society.
H.P. Lovecraft
#12. I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies.
Poppy Z. Brite
#13. Best-selling horror fiction is indeed necessarily conservative because it must entertain a large number of readers. It's like network television. I'm your local cable access station.
Thomas Ligotti
#14. 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 think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems, and, perversely perhaps, to enjoy a vicarious confrontation with them.
Clive Barker
#15. Fear is essential in horror fiction. Gore is optional.
Rayne Hall
#16. It was just a colour out of space - a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it; from realms whose mere existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the black extra-cosmic gulfs it throws open before our frenzied eyes.
H.P. Lovecraft
#17. Ah, relationships. If he was lucky, Luke thought, he would never have another one.
Poppy Z. Brite
#18. When the world uncovers some dark disguise,
Embrace the darkness with averted eyes.
Thomas Ligotti
#19. I believe,' Muswell once said, 'that mental isolation is the essence of weird fiction. Isolation when confronted with disease, with madness, with horror and with death. These are the reverberations of the infinity that torments us.
("The White Hands")
Mark Samuels
#20. An intriguing world where vampires rule, only the strongest survive, and romance offers hope in the darkest hours.
Rachel Caine
#21. "Faith is what's wrong with the world, Aidan. Or don't you follow the news?"
"That's not faith," he says. "That's the complete lack of it. If any one of those mass-genocidal idiots had faith, they wouldn't have the insane need to prove it to others."
Cyma Rizwaan Khan
#22. The unfortunate 8075 hadn't survived his assault, splintering apart, fragments of its casing skittering across the bench. The battery within had split along its plane, revealing something as out-of-place as a missile in a bathtub.
A. Ashley Straker
#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. February 9th was HIS day. The day he always striked.
Mary Papas
#25. He's a pig," whispers May, her frail body wavering in the firelight. "An ugly pink pig. And I think the pig needs to be butchered.
Mav Skye
#26. Let the deal be spoken first and then manipulate it to your advantage.
T.S. Pettibone
#27. On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the fact that there's no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance.
George Stephen
#28. Now that the barn has burned down, I can see the moon.
- Persian proverb
Samantha Combs
#29. Cattle ... it called us cattle ...
We're hamburger, you mean.
Peter Clines
#30. I write fiction. It may have mystery, it may have horror, it may have fantasy, it may have love, but like life, it's all the same genre.
Don Roff
#31. But optimism dribbles away when horror repeats.
Tim Reed
#32. Some girls are sweeter ... Others have a tinge of bitterness ... It is as if I can smell their souls. Their experiences and relationships are painted in warm, sour crimson.
Katlyn Charlesworth
#33. My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.
James Dyson
#34. Maybe I'm stupid. Maybe I'm just as evil as he is by keeping my mouth shut. But he told me once that I was different. And I can't help but hope that me being different is the one thing in this world that can save him from what he fears the most ... Himself.
Lauren Hammond
#35. I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.
Rick Baker
#36. We're not in a fairytale story. This is not a movie. Scriptwriters don't write our fates. We do.
Ken Marvin Ortega
#37. The deer hovered by the trees beyond as the sounds of the ravening wolves came to them across the grass, their own senses almost frozen in impotent horror.
David Clement-Davies
#38. For those who resist the notion that the mainstream is a genre, we recommend that they browse the shelves of their local bookstore. For if the mainstream is not a genre, then it must necessarily embrace all kinds of writing: romance, adventure, horror, thriller, crime, and, yes, science fiction.
James Patrick Kelly
#39. And I've learned to hit the brakes at these kinds of stop signs rather than t-boning a tanker truck filled with 200 proof mediocrity.
Benjamin Kane Ethridge
#40. And I'm thinking about the old man. He'll be pounding on the glass right about now ... or maybe not now. Maybe in a while. But he'll be pounding and ... will there be blood? I like to imagine so. Yes, I rather think there will be blood. Lots of blood. Blood in extraordinary quantities.
Alan Moore
#41. The times have changed and now the story is old, but yet it all remains the same, a victim in the cold.
Stephen Harker
#42. If one could only discover the unwritten bases of black magic and apply formulae to them, we would find that they were merely another form of science ... perhaps less advance, perhaps more.
Charles Beaumont
#43. Believe in yourself, Follow your dreams, and all things are possible!
Garry E. Lewis
#44. I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
J.J. Abrams
#45. I was inspired to become a writer by horror movies and science fiction.
Colson Whitehead
#47. Well, she asked, how do you gentlemen like living in a haunted house?
It's perfectly fine, Luke said, perfectly fine. It gives me an excuse to have a drink in the middle of the night.
Shirley Jackson
#48. 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
#49. God isn't going to scribble across the sky. The shark is gone.
Peter Benchley
#50. I've been a fan of vampire fiction since way, way back - I loved Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, Robert McCammon, Shirley Jackson, lots of great horror and paranormal fiction.
Rachel Caine
#51. The woods are full of regional writers, and it is the great horror of every serious Southern writer that he will become one of them.
Flannery O'Connor
#52. Until the sky rolls back like a scroll, I have failed nothing." --Satan
James Garcia Jr.
#53. To write your dreams of fantasy, is to create fantasy in another's dreams
Rob Shepherd
#54. You killed me." My voice was unsteady.
He held me close again. "I brought you back."
"Please tell me we only have to do that once."
He whispered against my ear, "I swear I won't kill you again. Cross my heart and hope to die." It was a bad joke
Catrina Burgess
#55. He was far scarier than any ghost could be. He was real, and he was a monster.
Kayla Krantz
#56. The northern star changes its position every ten thousand years, but friendships can last for all eternity.
- RJPeters
R.J. Peters
#57. Science/horror/Non-Fiction/Technology/Music/Games/Space... these are the subjects of future. The other again will develop but not with such speed like these here.
Deyth Banger
#59. I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.
Mary Shelley
#60. I shut up. I don't fight, I don't scream. Shame rides alongside my terror. But somewhere deep, deep inside, I hear Mom tell me to trust my gut. My gut tells me I am blind and I am lost, and if I fought for freedom now, it would end in my death. I listen to my gut. Because I want to live.
Carolyn Lee Adams
#61. She was a predator - a creature of the night who rejoiced in the thrill of the hunt.
Alan Kinross
#64. Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.
Tanith Lee
#65. He had heard many of his customers talking about 'repetitive strain injury' over the years and he was sure that, if he was capable, he too would suffer this - especially with the industrial tooling he carried around everywhere that he went.
Stephen Craig
#66. Drifting on the black, rippling surface were fingers. Thumbs. Dozens of them. Hundreds, floating like dead fish in a dynamited pond. I saw part of an ear. The lights went out.
Glen Hirshberg
#67. In fantasy, impossible things exist. In science fiction, impossible things exist and can be understood by humans. In supernatural horror, impossible things exist and cannot live in peace with humans.
Will Shetterly
#68. Quite often, intent on conveying how things can go wrong for a culture (science fiction) or an individual (horror) or all of magical creation (fantasy), works of fantastika often preclude comedy, because humor gets in the way of messages of doom or struggle.
Paul Di Filippo
#69. Only a few can survive and face reality without a vice.
Jacob Wild
#70. Such is the great nature of man, it resides the true face beneath a glittering masquerade.
K. Hari Kumar
#71. Don't worry about paying me. Stay alive, child. You must save yourself. And, whatever you do, don't forget who you are
Catrina Burgess
#72. As soon as Todd drove off the motorway it vanished from the mirror, and so did the sun across the moor.
Ramsey Campbell
#73. Is this how humanity waves good-bye?
Hell no.
Rick Yancey
#74. I never would have guessed I would be making science fiction and horror films.
Matt Reeves
#75. Famine was a dirty bitch with rotten fangs, but the hunger she put in a belly bit sharp nonetheless.
T. Frohock
#76. He wants your soul' from Mina Harker: The Curse of the Vampire
Louise Lake
#77. He's evil, and the only thing that stops evil is death.
Kayla Krantz
#78. There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine yourself to even doing historical revisionist fiction, whatever you want to call it - mash-ups, gimmick lit, absurdist fiction - I don't know if I want to do that anymore.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#79. I grew up as an artist. Science fiction allows for design and creatures and guns and all the stuff that I like as well. So I think most of the films I make, I'm sure, will be in that category. But I can also see myself making a film like 'Black Hawk Down,' and I could also totally do horror.
Neill Blomkamp
#80. I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#81. When I was a kid, I loved 'The Curse of Frankenstein,' 'The Creeping Unknown,' 'X: The Unknown.' I love 'Forbidden Planet,' 'The Thing from Another World.' They were science fiction/horror movies, generally.
John Carpenter
#83. Evan had heard it all before. A paradise underground, made for things like the worm in front of him. A place where Evan would forget he had ever been human, forget he had a mother, maybe even forget his own name. This thing did not remember its own, Evan was sure of it.
Mary G. Thompson
#85. Wolfman clears everything off the table except his gun. That he keeps close at hand. There is a sense of ceremony about his actions. My stomach tightens up. We are about to begin.
Carolyn Lee Adams
#86. 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
#87. For the last 30 years our cinemas have been ruled by science fiction and horror. We've had some very good Fantasy films in that time period, but for my tastes I still haven't seen fantasy done to absolute perfection. That is the hope I have in this project.
Harry Knowles
#89. Teacher's pet Teacher's pet.. Your feeling so perplexed ... Your friend has gone into pieces and you'll be next ...
Richie Tankersley Cusick
#90. She suddenly felt herself gasping for air, as if she'd momentarily forgotten how to breathe. She rocked back in her chair and nearly fell over, then slumped against the green-covered table. The bowl fell from her fingers, shattering at her feet, broken glass scattering everywhere.
Joe DeRouen
#92. Your mind is your bitch," he says. "The truth is you can teach it to do anything. You have to program your brain to your commands, not other people's.
Cyma Rizwaan Khan
#93. There are many dark corners in the many universes. Don't continue on if you are afraid to explore the dark, brutal and absurd
David Agranoff
#94. He had no idea of my misery. It would have surprised him to think that I was a human creature with a soul.
Joyce Carol Oates
#95. The deeds of the light do just as much damage as the deeds of the dark.
From Lucifer's Ladder (God of the Fallen: Book One)
W.D. Frank
#96. 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
#97. It had not hurt his hands at all and the sudden release of energy, twinned with Dom's fall, gave him a sudden lunatic rush of euphoria.
Adam Nevill
#98. I like stories about supervillains. They teach children that you can accomplish great things even when the whole world is against you.
G.D. Falksen
#99. An old adage warns: If you don't know your history, you will be forever condemned to repeat it. Likewise, if you don't know your science fiction, and heed its warnings, you could condemn the Earth to future catastrophe.
Kelly Steed
#100. I really, really need some help and advice. I'm scared ... I'm scared of my own home, of my own daughter!
Meinos Kaen
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