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Quiet people have the loudest minds.

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So in that sense, I and my fellow horror writers are absorbing and defusing all your fears and anxieties and insecurities and taking them upon ourselv...more

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Last reason for reading horror: it’s a rehearsal for death. It’s a way to get ready. People say there’s nothing sure but death and taxes. But that’s n...more

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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.

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We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

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Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.

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Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.

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Lover," she whispers, and closes her eyes.It falls upon her.Love is like dying.

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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. Especia...more

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

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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 i...more

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The town knew about darkness. It knew about the darkness that comes on the land when rotation hides the land from the sun, and about the darkness of t...more

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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 i...more

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There were fourteen steps exactly fourteen. But the top one was smaller, out of proportion, as if it had been added to avoid the evil number.

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What none of them knew, of course, was that Carrie White was telekinetic.