“The truth is that monsters are real, and ghosts are real, too. They live inside us, and sometimes they win.”— Stephen King, amazon.comTagged: monsters, Ghosts
“The lips were as red as ever. But there was no sign of movement, no pulse, no breath, no beating of the heart.”— Bram Stoker, amazon.comTagged: Horror Stories, Vampire
“God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.”— William Peter Blatty, amazon.comTagged: God, Horror Stories
“Consequently, if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan's power comes from God and so that Satan is simply God's child, and that we are God's children also. There are no children of Satan, really.”— Anne Rice, amazon.comTagged: Religion, God, Evil, Good, Vampire
“He was soon born away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.”— Mary Shelley, amazon.comTagged: Famous Last Lines, Darkness
“I still get nightmares. In fact, I get them so often I should be used to them by now. I'm not. No one ever really gets used to nightmares.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: nightmares, Night Terrors, Afraid
“Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren't.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.comTagged: Horror Stories, monsters, Fear
“I'm going to put death in all their food and watch them die.”— Shirley Jackson, amazon.comTagged: Horror Stories, Death, scary
“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
“I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.”— Thomas Harris, amazon.comTagged: Cannibal, Horror Stories
“Pieces of her ended up in the fridge. Inside the freezer, her lifeless eyes stare coldly at her heart— blaming it for her shortcomings.”— John Robert L. Luna., twosentencestories.comTagged: Horror, Sex, scary
“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
“We used to live in your house," George said. "And now, guess what?" Jerry added. "Now we're dead in your house!’”— R.L. Stine, amazon.comTagged: Horror Stories, Haunted House
“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”— Mary Shelley, amazon.comTagged: Fearless, Powerful
“Do you think the dead come back and watch the living?”— Daphne du Maurier, amazon.comTagged: Horror Stories, Afterlife, Death
“All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.”— Robert Louis Stevenson, amazon.comTagged: Horror Stories
“Hungries toggle between two states. They’re frozen in place most of the time, just standing there like they’re never going to move again. Then they smell prey, or hear it, or catch sight of it, and they break into that terrifying dead sprint. No warm-up, no warning. Warp factor nine.”— M.R. Carey, amazon.comTagged: Horror Stories, monsters, Zombie
“The life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.”— Edgar Allan Poe, amazon.comTagged: Apocalypse, Horror Stories
“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
“I saw something moving round the foot of the bed, which at first I could not accurately distinguish. But I soon saw that it was a sooty-black animal that resembled a monstrous cat. It appeared to me about four or five feet long for it measured fully the length of the hearthrug as it passed over it;…”— J. Sheridan Le Fanu, amazon.comTagged: Nightmare, Horror Stories, Vampire, monsters
“With a thin black wand he was drawing designs on her body, dipping the wand's point in a cup of red held for him by a sun-browned man with a white moustache. The point moved back and forth across her stomach and down ticklingly to the insides of her thighs. The naked people were chanting--flat, unmu…”— Ira Levin, amazon.comTagged: Witchcraft, Horror Stories
“She had a ghostly pallor and a dreadful expression, she wore clothes that were out of keeping with the styles of the present-day; she had kept her distance from me and she had not spoken. Something emanating from her still, silent presence, in each case by a grave, had communicated itself to me so s…”— Susan Hill, amazon.comTagged: Horror Stories, Ghost
“The favorite spectre of Sleepy Hollow, the Headless Horseman, who had been heard several times of late, patrolling the country; and, it was said, tethered his horse nightly among the graves in the churchyard.”— Washington Irving, amazon.comTagged: Horror Stories
“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
“When we look up at the clouds she sees an island, a puppy dog, Alaska, a tulip. I see, but don’t tell her, a Gucci money clip, an ax, a woman cut in two, a large puffy white puddle of blood that spreads across the sky, dripping over the city, onto Manhattan.”— Bret Easton Ellis, Patrick Bateman , amazon.comTagged: Seeing Evil
“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
“We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn't.”— Rick Yancey, amazon.comTagged: Horror Stories, Death, Dying, Fear Of Death, Reality Check
“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
“As he crossed the entry hall, he had the feeling that the house was swallowing him alive.”— Richard Matheson, amazon.comTagged: Haunted House, Horror Stories, Paranoia, Claustrophobia
“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