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“Horror spawns horror”
“Clearly, you don't know much about horror, he said. Horror is premised on the experience of what we do not and cannot understand, whereas what you're talking about is mere low-class smut, which eve...”
“The American id could not be educated, Spinks thought. It needed horror in order to stay awake and to justify its most pleasureful pursuit, the destruction of helpless people who had never done any...”
“The idea that the spirits of those once tortured in the house might still be there was the avenue his imagination began to explore. The groaning of the wood sounded like screams from the dungeon an...”
“What one thinks finds expression in words, and what one says, happens.”
“The precautions of nervous people re infectious, and persons of a like temperament are pretty sure, after a time, to imitate them.”
“But curiosity is a restless and unscrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another.”
“Eve wasn't sure what right the clown had to butcher the poor girl like that. In fact, most horror movies made her angry. Though the 'final girl' usually got out alive, she was stripped of so much b...”
“Kyle's throat caught. His boastful expression turned to panic. He made the universal sign of choking at her, and stamped his feet like a child having a temper tantrum in the candy aisle. Chloe did ...”
“The ever-present macabre, a universal dance,You cannot hide, whether you wield crossbow or lance. Like the bones of the house in which you dwell, Death will come, to drag your soul to hell.”
“You can't drink 'English afternoon tea' in the morning," the barista said to her, his eyes blazing like shards of crystal meth about to ignite. "Do you want to be responsible for fucking up the uni...”
“Defeated, Jo turned her head as the knives hurdled through the air. There was another photograph on the wall: a shot of Franny Jo had never seen before. As the woman in the photo watched her knives...”
“I was going to make the little hound here part of your display, but you know, against all odds, Ive found myself growing to like the little guy! You were going to be a girl transforming into a were...”
“It was in that small lack of movement that Poet could see true horror. A mirror held up to the human race and how it can be manipulated. Ruined.”
“We're going to have such fun, you and I.”
“Arguably, horror may be understood as a fictional indulgence in fantasies of violence, and our fascination with it seen as a form of sublimation of repressed desires. If we accept this line of thin...”
“She counted each second, each moment of life stolen from her, moving her closer to death.”
“Another heaping portion of shitty life, please. And an extra order of I'll just go fuck myself then, too.”
“A young man is afraid of his demon and pulls his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him.”
“What none of them knew, of course, was that Carrie White was telekinetic.”
