622 quotes found
“One should let one's nails grow for a fortnight. O, how sweet it is to drag brutally from his bed a child with no hair on his upper lip and with wide open eyes, make as if to touch his forehead gen...”
“I'll tell you something of the forbidden horrors she led me into - something of the age-old horrors that even now are festering in out-of-the-way corners with a few monstrous priests to keep them a...”
“Terrible and ancient and scarred with the endless cold of space, the terrible and ancient things glistened with frozen moisture and colors played across the surface of the skin, colors that were ne...”
“The snow wasn't deep - in many places its crust was firm enough that they actually walked on top of it - but the wind was surgical, a precision instrument with needles for teeth, and it found even ...”
“Middling monsters died at the point of pitchforks, burned with torches, or at the butt of silver-capped canes wielded by angry, geriatric Poles. Middling people were dime-a-dozen, emptied souls, sh...”
“Richard felt about as conspicuous as a foreskin at a Jewish nudist camp.”
“Another big mistake you women make, never underestimate the cunning of a killer”
“(W.D.) Howells asserted that the Americans' 'love of the supernatural is their common inheritance from no particular ancestry.' Their fiction, he added, often gathers in the gray 'twilight of the r...”
“Beware, William of Mercia, you heeded not our warnings and you can no longer turn back, but the path ahead is strewn with danger, to you, and to those who travel with you. This is but the beginning...”
“Mademoiselle De Lafontaine in right of her father, who was a German, assumed to be psychological, metaphysical and something of a mystic now declared that when the moon shone with a light so inte...”
“I discovered news of old horrors in old books; read intelligence of old atrocities in old periodicals; always in the back of my mind, every day a bit louder, I heard the seashell drone of some grow...”
“There are those who don't understand the nobility of horror fiction. 'Isn't there enough horror in the world?' they ask. For all other forms of literature, the value of human life is optional. For ...”
“The only constant in this reality is change...”
“UNDERTAKER! the head boomed. BOY, DO I HAVE A JOB FOR YOU!”
“Evil is nothing more than that, which was once divine, and has fallen into shit." Indrid Night - Through A Glass Darkly.”
“Darnell had received what is called a sound commercial education, and would therefore have found very great difficulty in putting into articulate speech any thought that was worth thinking;”
“To those of you who are yet to plunge into the zygote pool and want to know what both plumbless horror and pure love feels like, have yourself a baby...”
“I said, "I want to wear something funny and cool. Marjorie, could I wear your sparkly baseball hat?"The three of us looked at Marjorie.Now I remember thinking that her answer could change everythin...”
“Monsters in movies are us, always us, one way or the other. Theyre us with hats on. The zombies in George Romeros movies are us. Theyre hungry. Monsters are us, the dangerous parts of us. The part ...”
“Morris chopped off the girl's hand with a hatchet then guttered laughter. The poor mulato wailed, her stump pumping. "What'choo do that for!" Cutton bellowed. He hadn't even gotten his trousers off...”
