Top 88 Quotes About Horror Stephen King
#1. They walked through the rainy dark like gaunt ghosts, and Garraty didn't like to look at them. They were the walking dead.
Stephen King
#2. Death in the horror movies is when the monsters get you.
Stephen King
#3. The most classic horror tale of this latter type is the Old Testament story of Job, who becomes human Astro-Turf in a kind of spiritual Superbowl between God and Satan.
Stephen King
#4. I've been typed as a horror writer, and I've always said to people, "I don't care what you call me as long as the checks don't bounce and the family gets fed."
Stephen King
#5. What your mind sees when you close your eyes marks the entrance to an endless universe: your imagination.
Stephen Helmes
#6. Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in.
Stephen King
#7. Even a zombie lurching through the night can seem pretty cheerful compared to the existential comedy/horror of the ozone layer dissolving under the combined assault of a million fluorocarbon spray cans of deodorant.
Stephen King
#8. Horror's a worm that needs to be coughed out before it breeds.
Stephen King
#9. Horror is when you know and love the characters, but you also know something very bad is going to happen to them. It's not the monsters!
Stephen King
#10. 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
#11. Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.
Stephen King
#12. Those eyes filled him with the paralyzed, hopeless horror that the hen feels for the weasel.
Stephen King
#13. The things a man sees when he ain't got a gun.
Watson the Caretaker
Stephen King
#14. I wanted to write a balls-to-the-wall supernatural horror story, something I haven't done in a long time.
Stephen King
#15. Not all is silent in the halls of the dead and the rooms of ruin. Even now some of the stuff the Old Ones left behind still works. And that's really the horror of it, wouldn't you say? Yes. The exact horror of it.
Stephen King
#16. There are a lot of people in the field [ of horror stories] that I do read. There is a lot of stuff that is written in this field, though, that is not very good. You just have to look for the good stuff.
Stephen King
#17. We'll eat your steam and lap up your blood. But first, we'll drink your screams
Stephen King
#18. Sometimes to be at home is like a nightmare by Stephen King.
Deyth Banger
#19. I noticed the dudes in the ambulance were staying put; I hoped they were calling for backup, or maybe somebody who could do an exorcism, or maybe my pal Stephen King, because if anybody on earth could figure a way out of this mess, it'd be Uncle Stevie.
Tobe Hooper
#20. You stole my story and something's got to be done about it.
Stephen King
#22. The horror genre is vast and full of brilliance. Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Herman Melville, the book of Esther. I'll happily join that list.
Victor LaValle
#23. There are things of such darkness and horror - just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty - that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.
Stephen King
#24. They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy tale was green with corruption and evil.
Stephen King
#25. Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be.
Stephen King
#26. My first six books were horror, I think because when I was young I loved Stephen King. John Wyndham, Daphne Du Maurier, and it's natural to try and emulate the books you first loved.
Sarah Pinborough
#27. I discovered news of old horrors in old books; read intelligence of old atrocities in old periodicals; always in the back of my mind, every day a bit louder, I heard the seashell drone of some growing, coalescing force; I seemed to smell the bitter ozone aroma of lightings-to-come.
Stephen King
#28. I just know I'm too much of a wuss for Stephen King's books. I'm way too chicken to read horror.
Stephenie Meyer
#29. Lover, she whispers, and closes her eyes.
It falls upon her.
Love is like dying.
Stephen King
#30. Invitation to Dance-
It's a Dance. And sometimes they turn the lights off in this ballroom.
But we'll dance anyway, you and I. Even in the Dark. Especially in the Dark.
May I have the pleasure?
Stephen King
#31. It's not the tales of Stephen King that I've read,
I need protection from the things in my head ...
Jimmy Buffett
#32. He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it set in again.
Stephen King
#33. There was an ocean above us, held in by a thin sac that might rupture and let down a flood at any second.
Stephen King
#34. Coldness went marching up his arms like the feet of evil fairies.
Stephen King
#35. Then his lids closed slowly over his slightly bloodshot eyes, and Mort Rainey, who had yet to discover what true horror was all about, fell asleep.
Stephen King
#36. Those old things were still painful to think about, still bright with the childish primary colors of fear and horror.
Stephen King
#37. At three in the morning the gaudy paint is off that old whore, the world, and she has no nose and a glass eye. Gaiety becomes hollow and brittle, as in Poe's castle surrounded by the Red Death. Horror is destroyed by boredom. Love is a dream.
Stephen King
#38. It ain't the blows we're dealt that matter, but the ones we survive.
Stephen King
#39. And then, eyes widening in horror, he saw the word REDRUM reflecting dimly from the glass dome, now reflected twice. And he saw that it spelled MURDER. Danny
Stephen King
#40. At night, when i go to bed i still am at pains to be sure that my legs are under the blankets after the lights go out. I am not a child anymore but .. Because if a cool hand ever reached out from under the bed and grasped my ankle, i might scream.
Stephen King
#41. Norris didn't cry, but he was apt to puke on them, the way he had puked on homer gamache that time he had found homer sprawled in a ditch out by homeland cemetary, beaten to death with his own artificial arm.
Stephen King
#42. I knew there were no ghosts in there, but on the other hand, what if there were?
Stephen King
#44. If you had to put my love life into a genre, it would probably be horror. By the same token, I'm not even sure that the master of scary shit, Stephen King, could adequately express it on paper.
Katie Ashley
#45. Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.
Stephen King
#46. Better than cancer or Alzheimer's, that prime horror of anyone who has spent his life making a living by his wits.
Stephen King
#47. You can see the evil, the evil is everywhere. As Far as I can tell I can build a town full of horror.
Deyth Banger
#48. Pack up all my care and woe, blackbird, bye-bye
Stephen King
#49. The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
Stephen King
#50. Never tell to much. The monster is always scarier when it is still under the child's bed.
Stephen King
#51. Horror movies often work better when we have a stake in the game. The more we care about the characters, the more human they are to us, the more appealing they are to us and the more effective the horror tends to be.
Stephen King
#52. There is no life here but the slow death of days, and so when the evil falls on the town, its coming seems almost preordained, sweet and morphic. It is almost as though the town knows the evil was coming and the shape it would take.
Stephen King
#53. Your friends drag you down, Gordie. Don't you know that? [ ... ] Your friends do. They're like drowning guys that are holding onto your legs. You can't save them. You can only drown with them.
Stephen King
#54. Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.
Stephen King
#55. Moonlight flooded in the windows and silvered the room, turning it into a lagoon of dreams
Stephen King
#56. Everybody wants to psychoanalyze horror. They don't want to psychoanalyze a book like Gay Talese's "Sex with Your Neighbor" or something like that. It's pretty much accepted that Americans should be interested in who they're diddling and how they're doing it.
Stephen King
#57. 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
#58. Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up
Stephen King
#59. I thought it was great fun to scare people. I also knew it was socially acceptable because there were a lot of horror movies out there.
Stephen King
#60. Until that afternoon in October four years ago, I hadn't known dogs could scream.
Stephen King
#61. Swear to me swear to me that if it isn't dead you'll all come back.
Stephen King
#62. James Patterson, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, so far these are the best horror writers, but I will continue searching for other interesting horror and twisted writers even like James Wan.
Deyth Banger
#63. But a spider was, after all, only a spider. Perhaps at the end, when the masks of horror were laid aside, there was nothing with which the human mind could not cope.
Stephen King
#64. Then, as understanding began to trickle through his shock, he felt an escalating sense of horror. It had finally happened; he had finally lost enough of his mind so that other people would be able to *tell*.
Stephen King
#65. The first movie I ever saw was a horror movie. It was Bambi. When that little deer gets caught in a forest fire, I was terrified, but I was also exhilarated.
Stephen King
#66. Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.
William H. Macy
#67. And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity.
Stephen King
#68. 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
#69. In the end, though, it's all about giving back the teeth that the current 'sweetie-vamp' craze has, by and large, stolen from the bloodsuckers. It's about making them scary again.
Stephen King
#70. There's an idea that hell is other people. My idea is that it might be repetition.
Stephen King
#71. I'd like to be remembered not only for my body of work but also for specific novels. Ideally, I want to be remembered in the same way as Stephen King, who defined and exemplified excellence in the horror genre in the late 20th and early 21st century.
Nicholas Sparks
#74. If I had taken time to think, it would have gotten away again, but conscious thinking had been canceled by pain, surprise, and the horror I suppose almost any man feels when he sees blood pouring from a part of his body that was whole only seconds before.
Stephen King
#75. As if the cops expected the big gray sedan to start up by itself, like that old Plymouth in the horror movie,
Stephen King
#76. I wanted monsters that ate whole cities, radioactive corpses that came out of the ocean and ate surfers, and girls in black bras who looked like trailer trash. Horror movies, science fiction movies, movies about losers on motorcycles- this was the stuff that turned my dials up to ten.
Stephen King
#77. What none of them knew, of course, was that Carrie White was telekinetic.
Stephen King
#78. That one smooth black eye stared, and reflected in it I fancied I could see the cyclopeon city, and the endless column of the marching dead.
Stephen King
#79. It wasn't the execution per se; except for the warden's bizarre blue shirt, it had seemed as prosaic as getting a tetanus shot or a shingles vaccination. That was actually the horror of it. Something
Stephen King
#80. Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!
Stephen King
#81. The horror genre is an extremely delicate thing. You can talk to filmmakers and even psychologists who've studied the genre, and even they don't understand what works or what doesn't work. More importantly, they don't understand why it works when it works.
Stephen King
#82. Never will you talk to me like that again.
Stephen King
#83. Five police cars were parked in the yard, two drawn up nose-to-nose behind the car's back bumper, as if the cops expected the big gray sedan to start up by itself, like that old Plymouth in the horror movie, and make a run for it.
Stephen King
#84. Hello?" he asked as he went ... just so that anyone intent on killing him would know exactly where to look.
Stephen King
#85. Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.
Stephen King
#86. I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.
Stephen King
#87. The advantage of horror books is to take the reader and cut him out of the pack and work on him one on one. It has its advantages because the people that are there in the movie theater really are a mob. If you get one guy alone you can do a more efficient job of scaring him.
Stephen King
#88. I started after him ... and the clown looked back. I saw Its eyes, and all at once I understood who It was."
"Who was it, Don?" Harold Gardner asked softly.
"It was Derry," Don Hagarty said. "It was this town.
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