“Son, the greatest trick the Devil pulled was convincing the world there was only one of him.”— David Wong, amazon.comTagged: devil, Sin, Evil
“It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive but intact, and what is left of the present you, the person you have become, wilts and shrivels in sadness or despair: the person you have become is only a thin shell…”— Peter Straub, amazon.comTagged: Fear, Despair
“Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.comTagged: Death, Time, Darkness
“The monsters that rose from the dead, they are nothing compared to the ones we carry in our hearts.”— Max Brooks, amazon.comTagged: zombies, Death
“So fragile—the human body. Just one prick and it will draw blood. Just one bullet and the bleeding will never stop.”— Tiana Dalichov, amazon.comTagged: humans, fragile, Blood
“Bang bang bang. I understand now why so many horror movies use that device-the mysterious knock on the door-because it has the weight of a nightmare. You don't know what's out there, yet you know you'll open it. You'll think what I think: No one bad ever knocks.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.comTagged: creepy, Fear, Horror
“Huddled against the back wall were naked people, male and female, all trying to hide, shielding their faces with their hands. On the mattress lay a man with his legs gone to the hip and the stumps of them blackened and burnt. The smell was hideous. Jesus, he whispered. Then one by one they turned an…”— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.comTagged: help, creepy, Horror
“The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”— Hunter S. Thompson, amazon.comTagged: Insanity, humans
“Nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How then am I m…”— Edgar Allan Poe, amazon.comTagged: Nervous, Insanity
“You see, Frank found out the hard way that the dark things lurking in the night don’t haunt old houses or abandoned ships. They haunt minds.”— David Wong, amazon.comTagged: Fear, Haunted, creepy
“The Thing cannot be described - there is no language for such abysms of shrieking and immemorial lunacy, such eldritch contradictions of all matter, force, and cosmic order. A mountain walked or stumbled. If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus,…”— H.P. Lovecraft, amazon.comTagged: monster, Horror, creepy
“Then the first Dead Hand pulled itself out of the mill race and turned towards him. It was dark, true dark now, but Sam could just make it out. It had been human once, but the magic that had brought it back to Life had twisted the body as if following a mad artist’s whim. Its arms trailed below its…”— Garth Nix, amazon.comTagged: Horror, monster
“The noises started sometime in the night, during the hour when the moon was at its highest. Not screams, exactly. More like moans. Howls. Sounds I couldn’t put a name to. I lay in bed, wide awake, staring at the odd shapes the moonlight threw against the whitewashed walls. I couldn’t tell what type…”— Megan Shepherd, amazon.comTagged: Horror, monsters
“God’s already pissed off. He has been for five thousand years, and He’s sick to the nucleus of His soul. He’s not going to show Himself—you’re not worth His time. God’s gone. He’s fuckin’ busy, man.”— Edward Lee, amazon.comTagged: God, Soul
“And feast on the dead, I thought with a shudder. As if he could read my thoughts, he pressed a hand to my shoulder. His fingers were long and white, splaying over my arm like a waxen spider. If the gesture was meant to comfort me, it failed.”— Leigh Bardugo, amazon.comTagged: dead, creepy, Horror
“He listened to the keening of the wind whistling through holes in the walls, and he pondered the thought that there might be something out there in the dark—God or Devil or something more elemental than either—that looked at humankind as Josh had viewed the roach—less than intelligent, certainly nas…”— Robert McCammon, amazon.comTagged: God, devil
“They were trying to run, trying to hide. But the rock would not hide them; the dead tree gave no shelter.”— Stephen King, amazon.comTagged: Horror, creepy
“We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.”— Clive Barker, amazon.comTagged: Death, Suffering, Pain
“This much I'm certain of: it doesn't happen immediately. You'll finish [the book] and that will be that, until a moment will come, maybe in a month, maybe a year, maybe even several years. You'll be sick or feeling troubled or deeply in love or quietly uncertain or even content for the first time in…”— Mark Z Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Reading, Books, Perspective