“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.com
“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.com
“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.com
“Blood is really warm, it's like drinking hot chocolate but with more screaming.”— Ryan Mecum, amazon.com
“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.com
“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.com
“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.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
“I felt like it needed some color down there, so I painted the walls with the motherfucker.”— Joe Hill, amazon.com
“Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what man could think up.”— Joe Hill, amazon.com
“Flesh could not keep its glamour, nor eyes their sheen. They would go to nothing soon. But monsters are forever.”— Clive Barker, books.google.com
“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.com
“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.com
“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.com