622 quotes found
“For me and the girls from my village, horror is a disease and we are sick with it. It is not an illness you can cure yourself of by standing up and letting the big red cinema seat fold itself up be...”
“There are things that go bump in the night”
“He shouldn't say things like that in front of the artworks, especially when they're angry, but he always does.”
“Black vomit came gushing out Samanthas mouth, adding to the puddle already on the floor. Samantha was covered in a sheen of sweat, crouched on all fours on the wooden hallway floor, like an animal....”
“Let the red dawn surmise What we shall do, When this blue starlight dies And all is through.(The Yellow Sign)”
“The world's full of wonder, he said. Or at least horror that looks wondrous from afar.”
“...My hands shook, and I stared at them. Another loss of control. That was the second time this month. Sooner or later, Id break, if the department didnt put me down first.”
“Irwin was difficult to wake; the poor man was totally wiped out. He collapsed in one of the soft office chairs the moment Smith let him, sliding back into slumber. After he was settled, I sat at my...”
“This is the thing that troubles me, for I cannot forget Carcosa where black stars hang in the heavens; where the shadows of men's thoughts lengthen in the afternoon, when the twin suns sink into th...”
“Cold. Foggy cold. Soaking through fabric, biting into the skin, clutching the bones until flesh crawled.There was no moonlight, only orange, smoky lanterns, and the light made the snow glitter and ...”
“THEY are afraid of nothing,' I grumbled, watching their approach through the window. 'Together, they would brave Satan and all his legions.”
“Corpses were real. He had heard about these cannibal dead walkers in the northeast, but they were in fact real. Rumor had it that one - just one - had made its way down towards the Mid-Atlantic.The...”
“The White Hand did not fry all the brain. He fried somefrom the right hemisphere and some from the left. Theremaining brain, The White Hand wrapped in tin foil,carefully. Tomorrow is, after all, an...”
“Great revelations of nature, of course, never fail to impress in one way or another, and I was no stranger to moods of the kind. Mountains overawe and oceans terrify, while the mystery of great for...”
“You think horror enters spectacularly. It doesn't. It just prosaically turns up. Even in the first seconds you know you'll find it a room.”
“No one will ever write a horror novel as scary as reading about my symptoms on WebMD.”
“I'm a man of few words, most of them end in off!”
“Between the world we seeand the things we fear, there are doors. When they are opened, nightmares become reality.”
“When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, "There's jus...”
“He hurried back. Walls seemed to shift and advance. Right here, it must be. Wasnt this passage too short? No, it wasnt a wall that blocked his way, only fog. The fog retreated before himthen at onc...”
