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“He talked about terrible meetings in lonely places, of cyclopean ruins in the heart of the Maine woods beneath which vast staircases led down to abysses of nighted secrets, of complex angles that l...”
“If that other fellow doesn't know his happiness, well, he'd better look for it soon, or he'll have to deal with me.”
“Oh incomprehensible pederasts, I shall not heap insults upon your great degradation; I shall not be the one to pour scorn on your infundibuliform anus. It is enough that the shameful and almost inc...”
“Do one thing for me, Sredni Vashtar.”
“A horror writer is one who is not only willing to look into the darkest of shadows...but to reach into them too.”
“It was as if the city itself was preparing for some impending catastrophe. There had always been talks of ghost and darkness here, even in his boyhood, and now that darkness seems to be seeping fro...”
“There is but a gentle stillness inside every cerebral. Tiny waterfalls of blood vessels rushing, becoming lethal.”
“Maloney looked around my room and nodded like he approved of the extravagance surrounding him: the inch-thick carpet with its diamond designs, the half moon flock of the wallpaper, and the antique ...”
“Honey, you worry too much. Nothing is going to happen, I mean come on, youre in the house of Mr. Hausefalle, the guru of home security! Youre probably safer over there than here."- House Trap, ch. ...”
“As I shivered and brooded on the casting of that brain-blasting shadow, I knew that I had at last pried out one of earth's supreme horors-one of those nameless blights of outer voids whose faint de...”
“No one, none of us have rights. There is no destiny. We have responsibilities to ourselves and each other. We have responsibilities and the choice whether or not we live up to those responsibilities.”
“Noc knew that his girlfriend was better as he got to the door of Kays living room. This he could tell by the sound of her screaming at Turney for some infraction on the Son of Times part. He opened...”
“It was not a noisy wind but the kind that suggests something very big and thin fresh from the horror of Infinite Space.”
“He was terrified by the sublime horror of it, for intensity of feeling, carried to this degree, is sublime. ("A Woman's Vengeance")”
“Even the most impassioned devotee of the ghost story would admit that the taste for it is slightly abnormal, a survival, perhaps, from adolescence, a disease of deficiency suffered by those whose l...”
“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 arti...”
“Bullshit. You can paint with a fork, you can kill with a fork. A fork is a tool. Don't let yourself be confined by the definitions of others.”
“Once the frontiers of horror have been crossed, one will pass from form to form beyond the human and from metamorphosis to metamorphosis to accomplish, in the anguish of an impossible return, the m...”
“No sport, watching horror movie with friends in bright room.Try that alone at night without light with mirror above screen!”
“To her eyes, used to diversity, there was a troubling uniformity about them all, something that spoke of isolation, and a dull and thoughtless cruelty.”
