“Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.”— Clive Barker, amazon.comTagged: Blood, Death, humans
“I’ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears. The spirits of the dead have nothing on it. The dead one tried to show me hell, but it was a pale imitation of the horror I can paint on the darkness in a quiet mom…”— Mark Lawrence, amazon.comTagged: Fear, Silence, Darkness
“Blood is really warm, it's like drinking hot chocolate but with more screaming.”— Ryan Mecum, amazon.comTagged: Blood, Death, creepy
“They think of suicide as a quick route to oblivion, an escape. Far from it. It merely alters a person from one form to another. Nothing can destroy the spirit. Suicide only precipitates a darker continuation of the same conditions from which escape was sought. A condition under circumstances so much…”— Richard Matheson, amazon.comTagged: Suicide, Death, creepy
“Why is there evil in the world? Because sometimes you just wanna fuckin have it, and you don’t care who gets hurt.”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: Evil, Sin, Desire
“Because there was only one thing worse than dying. And that was knowing you were going to die. And where. And how.”— Richard Matheson, amazon.comTagged: Death, Fear, creepy
“In case you didn't know, dead people don't bleed. If you can bleed-see it, feel it-then you know you're alive. It's irrefutable, undeniable proof. Sometimes I just need a little reminder.”— Amy Efaw, amazon.comTagged: self-harm, Blood, alive
“If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.”— Dark Jar Tin Zoo, amazon.comTagged: Love, Murder
“I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.”— David Levithan, amazon.comTagged: Murder, Suicide, Death
“You can get used to horror, he thought. When it has lost immediacy and is no longer pungent and has become a steady diet. When it has degraded to a chain of mind-numbing events.”— Richard Matheson, amazon.comTagged: Horror, Fear, creepy
“All I could think of when I got a look at the place from the outside was what fun it would be to stand out there and watch it burn down.”— Shirley Jackson, amazon.comTagged: Hatred, burn, creepy
“His breath stopped in a gasp. An almost drowsy terror stole through his veins. Yes. Yes. There was something in here with him, some awful thing the Overlook had saved for just such a chance as this. Maybe a huge spider that had burrowed down under the dead leaves, or a rat... or maybe the corpse of…”— Stephen King, amazon.comTagged: Fear, monsters
“You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.comTagged: creepy, unique
“A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if, half an hour before, you spent just ten minutes with the fellow and knew a little about him and his family, you might just jump in front of his killer and try to stop it. Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know is ba…”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.comTagged: Death, Murder, Hero
“Carrie was standing in front of them perhaps seventy feet away. The high beams picked her out in ghastly horror-movie blacks and whites, dripping and clotted with blood. Now much of it was her own. The hilt of the butcher knife still protruded from her shoulder... She stood swaying, her arms thrown…”— Stephen King, amazon.comTagged: Blood, Fear, creepy
“I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: alive, dead
“Yet I think the demon's target is not the possessed; it is us . . . the observers . . . every person in this house. And I think---I think the point is to make us despair; to reject our own humanity, Damien: to see ourselves as ultimately bestial; as ultimately vile and putrescent; without dignity; u…”— William Peter Blatty, amazon.comTagged: demon, Sin, humanity
“I’ve been buried, but I’m not dead. I’m not dead. I can’t breathe. What is that sound? Is someone here? No, it’s me, crying and using precious air… Tremors shake my entire body, but the box I’m in does not shift at all.”— Bethany Griffin, amazon.comTagged: dead, alive
“Shall I kill her now? Shall I not even investigate, but kill her and burn her? His throat moved. Such thoughts were a hideous testimony to the world he had accepted; a world in which murder was easier than hope.”— Richard Matheson, amazon.comTagged: Hope, Murder, burn
“It sounded like her mother. Coraline went into the kitchen, where the voice had come from. A woman stood in the kitchen with her back to Coraline. She looked a little like Coraline’s mother. Only . . . Only her skin was white as paper. Only she was taller and thinner. Only her fingers were too long,…”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.comTagged: creepy, Fear
“And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity”— Stephen King, amazon.comTagged: Horror, humanity, creepy
“My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone, in fact I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape, but even after admitting this there is no catharsis, my punishment continues to elude me and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself; no new knowledg…”— Bret Easton Ellis, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Suffering, Hatred
“He understood that the ghost existed first and foremost within his own head. That maybe ghosts always haunted minds, not places.”— Joe Hill, amazon.comTagged: Ghosts, Haunted, creepy
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”— Shirley Jackson, amazon.comTagged: Sanity, Life
“This was a dank, sinister chill: the chill of shadows where poison toadstools grown, their ruddy colors beckoning a child to come, come take a taste of candy.”— Robert McCammon, amazon.comTagged: creepy, Darkness
“For him the word ‘horror’ had become obsolete. A surfeiting of terror made terror a cliché. To Robert Neville the situation merely existed as natural fact. It had no adjectives.”— Richard Matheson, amazon.comTagged: Horror, creepy
“Death is just the last scene of the last act.”— Joyce Carol Oates, amazon.comTagged: Death, Life, The End
“May be she’ll learn something about what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin. Not the end of life but the end of pain.”— Stephen King, amazon.comTagged: Death, Memories, Life
“I will run from my fear, I will outdistance my fear, then I will hide from my fear, I will wait for my fear, I will let my fear run past me, then I will follow my fear, I will track my fear until I can approach my fear in complete silence, then I will strike at my fear, I will charge my fear, I will…”— Mark Z Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Fear, creepy