“Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.”— Robert Anton Wilson, amazon.com
“[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.”— Clive Barker, amazon.com
“I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid to take it whole and work from there… I delight in what I fear.”— Shirley Jackson, amazon.com
“The image of those two oddball little girls from The Shining (1980) in their matching powder-blue dresses standing in a bleak, floral-wallpapered hallway has been burnt into my retina ever since the first moment I laid eyes on them. "Come play with us Danny... Forever and ever and ever..." I can sti…”— Ti West, imdb.com
“The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“You see, it’s not just that people want to be scared; people are scared.”— Wes Craven, huffingtonpost.com
“I think the experience of going to a theater and seeing a movie with a lot of people is still part of the transformational power of the film, and it's equivalent to the old shaman telling a story by the campfire to a bunch of people. That is a remarkable thing, if you scream and everyone else in the…”— Wes Craven, joblo.com
“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“Nothing is so frightening as what's behind the closed door. The audience holds its breath along with the protagonist as she/he (more often she) approaches that door. The protagonist throws it open, and there is a ten-foot-tall bug. The audience screams, but this particular scream has an oddly reliev…”— Stephen King, amazon.com