“Priest: I don't want to hear it. No more horror stories. Commoner: They are common stories these days. I even heard that the demon living here in Rashômon fled in fear of the ferocity of man.”— Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Commoner, Kichijirô Ueda, imdb.com
“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.com
“As he crossed the entry hall, he had the feeling that the house was swallowing him alive.”— Richard Matheson, amazon.com
“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.com
“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.com
“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.com
“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.com
“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.com
“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.com
“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.com
“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.com
“Haven’t you ever had people coming over and no time to shop? You have to make do with what’s in the fridge, Clarice. May I call you Clarice?”— Thomas Harris, amazon.com
“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.com
“God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.”— William Peter Blatty, amazon.com
“How many husbands and wives must believe they have fallen out of love because their hearts no longer race at the sight of their beloveds!”— William Peter Blatty, amazon.com
“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.com