“Myth: Serial killers are all dysfunctional loners. The majority of serial killers are not reclusive, social misfits who live alone. They are not monsters and may not appear strange. Many serial killers hide in plain sight within their communities.”— Katherine Ramsland, psychologytoday.com
“Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that. Why should I be filthy and inhuman? Why should I be an accomplice in the wholesale horror and degradation of the slaughter-house?”— George Bernard Shaw, amazon.com
“In closing, these stories have not been embellished, because they need no embellishment. They are simply, horrifyingly, the story of my life as a short, stocky, slow-witted bald man.”— Spike Feresten, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com
“It's a hot night. The mind races. You think about your knife; the only friend who hasn't betrayed you, the only friend who won't be dead by sun-up. Sleep tight, mates, in your quilted Chambray nightshirts.”— Gregg Kavet, Andy Robin, Eddie, Ned Bellamy, imdb.com
“I didn't write them for money; I wrote them because it occurred to me to write them. I have a marketable obsession. There are madmen and madwomen in padded cells the world over who are not so lucky.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“It's a relief to see a monster on the screen instead of feeling it in my chest.”— Lindsay King-Miller, vice.com
“Telling scary stories is something people have done for thousands of years, for most of us like being scared in that way. Since there isn't any danger, we think it is fun.”— Alvin Schwartz, amazon.com
“We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.”— Alan Moore, amazon.com
“I believe the desire to be frightened is as universal as the desire to be loved. We want to take the journey that allows us to survive what the people with whom you're taking the journey do not survive.”— Clive Barker, youtube.com
“The characters felt real, the world felt like our own, and there was no safety net — you weren’t safe in the daylight, your family could turn on you, and children weren’t safe from the monster. In fact, sometimes they were its favorite food.”— Mike Flanagan, ew.com
“My jaw hit the floor at the realization that stories like The Shining or The Dead Zone or those from Night Shift could actually exist. Characters from and of our world faced with horrors and challenges from somewhere else.”— J.J. Abrams, ew.com
“As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.”— Charles Baudelaire, amazon.com
“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.com
“In this whole wide wicked world, the only thing you have to be afraid of is me.”— Fiona Goode, Fiona Goode, Jessica Lange, imdb.com
“We're put in these impossible situations and we're asked to see all the darkness in the world. And then we have to go and live in it. The only way a person can exist after that is to put up a protective wall. A buffer from the sadness and death and chaos.”— BLGielen, wattpad.com
“Reality is never as bad as a nightmare as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.”— Sammy Davis Jr., wattpad.com
“Maybe that's what hell is. You go mad and all your demons come and get you just as fast as you can think them up.”— Anne Rice, wattpad.com
“I love to sleep cause I pretend that I'm dead but I hate waking up cause its hard to forget that I've lost all control of this life that I've held so dear.”— Emi, wattpad.com