Horror Quotes

I assure you, if Uncle Henry had stepped out from among the trees in a little copse which borders th...

The moon shone upon his almost transparent hands, and Stephen saw that the nails were fearfully long...

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

Once upon a time there was a king, and the king commissioned his favorite wizard to create a magic m...

What?' He cried, darting at him a look of fury: 'Dare you still implore the Eternal's mercy? Would y...

Horror is a shock, a time of utter blindness. Horror lacks every hint of beauty. All we can see is t...

The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds--the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild b...

Unfathomable to mere mortals is the lore of fiends.

Horror spawns horror

You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.

Horror immobolizes us because it is made of contradictory feelings: fear and seduction, repulsion an...

The truth of the matter was something much more subtle and tremendous than any plain physical miracl...

I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.

Dread is the first and the strongest types of fear. It is that tension, that waiting that comes when...

Silently we went round and round,And through each hollow mindThe memory of dreadful thingsRushed lik...

The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination,made grotesque by terror, twist...

Those in their snug Bed-chambers may call the Fears of Night meer Bugbears, but their Minds have not...

I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in t...

Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that ...

The book the snowman was the best book I have ever read it had suspence durring the whole book it wa...

You coming or not?" he repeated impatiently.I was going to say no. But then, glancing at the curtain...

The stuff of nightmare is their plain bread. They butter it with pain. They set their clocks by deat...

It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a v...

You can get used to horror, he thought. When it has lost immediacy and is no longer pungent and has ...

Yet, despite all, it is a difficult thing to admit the existence of ghosts in a coldly factual world...

Miniture protoplasm, the dirty little bastard!

It’s horrible," she said.He looked at her in surprise. Horrible? Wasn’t that odd? He hadn’t thought ...

But are his needs any more shocking than the needs of any other animals and men? Are his deeds more ...

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre—The Feast is over, and the lamps expire.

It was no ape, neither was it a man. It was some shambling horror spawned in the mysterious, nameles...

...That insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye lay caged in his fle...

And I thought:History is like a horror story.

All kinds of magic are out of date and done away with, except in India, where nothing changes in spi...

That sure as fuck ain't no cow

We go straight". I say again. "If we start making turns, we might not know what direction is what. I...

I've never been this dirty. I've never been this sweaty and disgusting. I've never been this afraid,...

It’s not nice to think of children growing up like mushrooms, in the dark.

Everything is worse...if you think something is looking at you.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even la...

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even la...

I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny ...

When they were silent for a moment the quiet weight of the house pressed down from all around them.

...Don't be surprised, and I say it darkly, do not be surprised if you lose your Luke in this cause;...

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even la...

It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.

It’s not nice to think of children growing up like mushrooms, in the dark.

Everything is worse...if you think something is looking at you.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even la...

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even la...

I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny ...

When they were silent for a moment the quiet weight of the house pressed down from all around them.

...Don't be surprised, and I say it darkly, do not be surprised if you lose your Luke in this cause;...

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even la...

It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.

It’s not nice to think of children growing up like mushrooms, in the dark.

Everything is worse...if you think something is looking at you.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even la...

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even la...

I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny ...

When they were silent for a moment the quiet weight of the house pressed down from all around them.

...Don't be surprised, and I say it darkly, do not be surprised if you lose your Luke in this cause;...

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even la...

It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.

It’s not nice to think of children growing up like mushrooms, in the dark.

Everything is worse...if you think something is looking at you.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even la...

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even la...

I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny ...

When they were silent for a moment the quiet weight of the house pressed down from all around them.

...Don't be surprised, and I say it darkly, do not be surprised if you lose your Luke in this cause;...

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even la...

It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

The maddened four men followed frantically, for it is better to be in the presence of the awful than...

Until that afternoon in October four years ago, I hadn't known dogs could scream.

Moonlight flooded in the windows and silvered the room, turning it into a lagoon of dreams

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and ye...

I can see your dirtypillows.

There’s an idea that hell is other people. My idea is that it might be repetition.

You stole my story and something's got to be done about it.

The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, ...

Is it because I'm a girl?"Reluctantly, Bill nodded his head.She looked at him for a moment, her lips...

Donald Trump is worse than any horror story I've written.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

So in that sense, I and my fellow horror writers are absorbing and defusing all your fears and anxie...

Last reason for reading horror: it’s a rehearsal for death. It’s a way to get ready. People say ther...

Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a ca...

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

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

Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.

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

Invitation to Dance-It’s a Dance. And sometimes they turn the lights off in this ballroom.But we’ll ...

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

At three in the morning the gaudy paint is off that old whore, the world, and she has no nose and a ...

The town knew about darkness. It knew about the darkness that comes on the land when rotation hides ...

There is no life here but the slow death of days, and so when the evil falls on the town, its coming...

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

They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line...