622 quotes found
“Good luck is just bad luck with its hair combed.”
“Horror is the removal of masks.”
“It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. Could be lots of things. You can't heave them into categories with labels a...”
“We ask only to be reassuredAbout the noises in the cellarAnd the window that should not have been open”
“You wouldn't think that people would believe that we all got so incredibly beat upin so many interesting waysfrom a bear attack. Especially not when Carmel is sporting a bite mark that is a spot-on...”
“Melody exploded. "THIS ISN'T LIKE GETTING A FISH TO SEE IF I COULD BE RESPONSIBLE ENOUGH FOR A PUPPY!" She took a deep breath, calmed herself and lowered her voice. She then repeated the statement ...”
“Stare at him," said Ghost. "They won't bite you if you keep staring at them."Steve backed away. "They bite?"Not really. They hiss at you, mostly. The only time geese are ever dangerous is when you ...”
“Spring, if it lingers more than a week beyond its span, starts to hunger for summer to end the days of perpetual promise. Summer in its turn soon begins to sweat for something to quench its heat, a...”
“To be thoroughly conversant with Mans heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair”
“The things a man sees when he ain't got a gun.--Watson the Caretaker”
“Very well, but remember this... I'll be looking at you when you're laid on the cross and the twelve blows are crashing down on your limbs. When the crowd is finally tired of your screams and wander...”
“Err:510”
“Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.”
“this is the best year ever because i am reading the chronicles of vladimir tod”
“A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.”
“Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous ...”
“On the morning of the exorcism, I stayed home from school.”
“Horror itself is a bit of a bullied genre, the antagonist being literary snobbery and public misconception. And I think good horror tackles our darkest fears, whatever they may be. It takes us into...”
“O little one, My little one, Come with me, Your life is done. Forget the future, Forget the past. Life is over: Breathe your last.”
“I could not help feeling that they were evil things-- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. That seething , half-luminous cloud-background held ine...”
