“Focus on these words, and whatever you do don’t let your eyes wander past the perimeter of this page. Now imagine just beyond your peripheral vision, maybe behind you, maybe to the side of you, maybe even in front of you, but right where you can’t see it, something is quietly closing in on you, so q…”— Mark Z Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: creepy, Death
“No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.comTagged: Death, Love, Blood, creepy
“I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: mean, Sin, creepy
“Mary started to scream, and then the curtains parted further and a hand appeared, holding a butcher's knife. It was the knife that, a moment later, cut off her scream. And her head.”— Robert Bloch, amazon.comTagged: Death, Blood, Murder
“People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.”— Stephen King, amazon.comTagged: Learning, Horror
“Our love was a two-person game. At least until one of us died, and the other became a murderer.”— Dark Jar Tin Zoo, amazon.comTagged: Murder, Love, creepy
“Here is a list of terrible things, The jaws of sharks, a vultures wings The rabid bite of the dogs of war, The voice of one who went before, But most of all the mirror's gaze, Which counts us out our numbered days.”— Clive Barker, amazon.comTagged: Fear, creepy, Death
“Let's say you have an ax. Just a cheap one, from Home Depot. On one bitter winter day, you use said ax to behead a man. Don't worry, the man was already dead. Or maybe you should worry, because you're the one who shot him.”— David Wong, amazon.comTagged: Murder, Death
“I felt like it needed some color down there, so I painted the walls with the motherfucker.”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: Blood, Death, creepy
“The zombie looks like a man, walks like a man, eats and otherwise functions fully, yet is devoid of the spark. It represents the nagging doubt that lays deep in the heart of even the most zealous believer: behind all of your pretty songs and stained glass, this is what you really are. Shambling meat…”— David Wong, amazon.comTagged: zombies, humans, Fear
“Him and God are supposed to be at war with each other. But if God hates sin and Satan punishes the sinners, aren’t they working the same side of the street? Aren’t the judge and the executioner on the same team?”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: God, satan, Evil
“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.comTagged: God, Boring, Death
“You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful, and before you know it, it's neither of those things, and you're standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it.”— Clive Barker, amazon.comTagged: creepy, Blood, beauty, alive
“Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in.”— Stephen King, amazon.comTagged: Death, Love, Fear
“When I was fourteen, I thought a lot about killing myself—it’s a hobby today, but at age fourteen it was a vocation. On a September morning, just after school started, I’d gotten Diane’s .44 Magnum and held it, babylike, in my lap for hours. What an indulgence it would be, to just blow off my head,…”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Suicide, Death, Suffering
“I lay in bed and thought about how easy it was to hurt a person. It didn't have to be physical. All you had to do was take a good hard kick at something they cared about.”— Jack Ketchum, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Suffering
“I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to express His terror of a woman's power to choose who and how to love, to redefine love as she sees fit, not as God thinks it ought to be. The aut…”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: God, Life, Suffering
“Flesh could not keep its glamour, nor eyes their sheen. They would go to nothing soon. But monsters are forever.”— Clive Barker, books.google.comTagged: creepy, Death, monsters
“The mad sometimes drilled holes in their own heads to let the demons out. To relieve the pressure of thoughts they could no longer bear. Jude understood the impulse. Each beat of his heart was a fresh and staggering blow felt in the nerves behind his eyes and in his temples. Punishing evidence of li…”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: Life, Suffering, Pain
“Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder of minutes. The violence comes from a combination of giving up, not caring, and a resignation that getting past it is all you can hope to accomplish. So you kill the hour. You do not work, you do not…”— Mark Z Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Time, Blood, Suffering
“When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end.”— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.comTagged: Death, Life, The End
“I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Soul, Unhappy, creepy
“I am a cutter, you see. Also a snipper, a slicer, a carver, a jabber. I am a very special case. I have a purpose. My skin, you see, screams. It's covered with words - cook, cupcake, kitty, curls - as if a knife-wielding first-grader learned to write on my flesh. I sometimes, but only sometimes, laug…”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: cutting, self-harm, Blood
“I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human b…”— Bret Easton Ellis, amazon.comTagged: humanity, Blood, creepy
“Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. Three more days to get through until I don't have to worry about life anymore.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Death, Life, creepy
“When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier.”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: Sin, Evil
“I can't recall a single amazing thing I have seen firsthand that I didn't immediately reference to a movie or TV show. A fucking commercial. You know the awful singsong of the blasé: Seeeen it. I've literally seen it all, and the worst thing, the thing that makes me want to blow my brains out, is: T…”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Souls, humanity
“We are all our own graveyards, I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were.”— Clive Barker, books.google.comTagged: graveyards, Death, Past
“Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what man could think up.”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: devil, creepy, humanity
“I felt a queasy mixture of relief and horror: when you finally stop an itch and realize it’s because you’ve ripped a hole in your skin.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: Suffering, Pain, Horror