Horror Quotes

We deal with so many nightmares on a regular basis. When I’m watching a horror movie, there’s a pattern, a sense of control in them. I’m just an observer, not having to deal with any of the repercussions. It’s a nice dream to think monsters play by the rules, that they’ve got a pattern you can unlock and follow. Real life’s messy, and the chaos leaves you devastated in the wake.

~ Katherine Mcintyre

I can’t believe it.’ I whispered.‘You can’t let him lure you back in, Felicia. He’s wrong. He’s wrong!’ Vanian pleaded, I could feel the quiver of his magic, the wisps that were fighting against the iron burning into his wrists, I could feel the crackle as it fought in the air, against his emotions, against his pain. I shook my head, was about to speak but Adam grabbed him by the front of his shirt; as if a few more tears and shreds couldn’t go amiss. The tightness of his grip paled the Faerie’s cheeks, caused the blood to trickle down faster, dropping to the floor.‘My wife.’ He yelled, ‘She’s my wife, silverblood.’ With each growl of a syllable he accented it with a punch to Vanian’s face.I couldn’t take much more. I jumped over and pulled at Adam’s shoulders, fingertips driving into the nook of his collarbone, pressing down with as much as I had in me, anything to break his hold. He recoiled and rose his hand to me, at first I flinched but I stopped. He wouldn’t hurt me. He wouldn’t.

~ Charlotte Munro

Can I borrow a cup of your face...?!

~ Jim Dyar

Further, deeper still, those whose true names are for ever hidden from the world picked up the pattern of vibrations in the ether, and something akin to joy stirred in their fathomless minds. Perhaps soon they would be called upon to feed.

~ Marc Gascoigne

Upward and Onward

~ Stephen Zimmer

They call us monsters because it makes it easier to hurt us. Bus monsters are people too.

~ Kippa

The raven – Asker – immediately cawed. It sounded suspiciously like laughter. “Not... be afraid of Asker.” The raven’s button eyes gleamed. “He only eats worms… you are not worm.

~ Tim Reed

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

~ Margaret Atwood

Fear is the short road to death and this world, Changed by the flux of decay: Survival is the exception for weary men.From the new book The Waning

~ Ellen Mae Franklin

The things that we do for love is ugly, mad, full of seat and regret.

~ Crimson Peak

Also, in the dismal Cold Waste, any man treasures illusions, though knowing them almost certainly to be such.

~ Fritz Leiber

If you go chasing your freedom your fate will only follow you there and force you back.

~ Christina Henry

At that instant the hag's noisy breathing stopped and with it all other sound. Her eyes opened, showing only whites - milky ovals infinitely eerie in the dark root-tangle of her sharp features and stringy hair. The gray tip of her tongue traveled like a large maggot around her lips.

~ Fritz Leiber

There is no reticence nor any limit to a 'Majique.' Only the unwillingness of the mind to open itself to the limitless power of possibilities that exist within the unbelievable.

~ Rob Shepherd

Rap un zeal' Demon within. I might as well put up a giant 'Come and Get Eaten' sign for the good those warning runes do.

~ Sabrina Zbasnik

If this is dying, Chloe thought, I'd like to do it again sometime.

~ Lucas Mangum

Gerard turned away and ignored the cruelty of the meerkats, tore it from his mind. Lucretia needed a heart.

~ Jeff Vandermeer

So now you're on the run,' Warrick said wistfully. 'Travelling the Dark Highway, a lone wolf. With your friend, who is another wolf. Two lone wolves. Two wolves, really. Not really alone. Two wolves in a car. Travelling. One of them naked and bloody. The other with her ass hanging out.

~ Derek Landy

It's a wholly illogical but nonetheless powerful belief that things will change for the better in a new place, that the urge to self-destruct will magically disappear.

~ Stephen King

We go straight. I say again. If we start making turns, we might not know what direction is what. If we keep going straight, at least we know how to get back to where we came from if we get into trouble. I know it's tiring, but walking uphill is a good thing-every step we take is a step closer to getting out. I see shoulders droop, I hear heavy sighs. They don't want to agree with me; they want to go the easier way.

~ Scott Sigler

I've never been this dirty. I've never been this sweaty and disgusting. I've never been this afraid, this thirsty, this alone. I haven't been a good leader, but--people are counting on me to take them to safety. I don't know if I'm twelve or twenty or if I'm twenty and I don't think age matters anymore-------There is a way out. I will find a way out.

~ Scott Sigler

They were like lightning and rain, existing together but clashing at their very natures.

~ T.s. Pettibone

It's been a pleasure pleasing you.

~ T.s. Pettibone

In the year 2052, it's not love but hate that unites the world.

~ T.s. Pettibone

Let the deal be spoken first and then manipulate it to your advantage.

~ T.s. Pettibone

You'll regret that, Bourkan.

~ T.s. Pettibone

Duty over fear.

~ T.s. Pettibone

I am War. I am Death. I am the Unloved God.

~ T.s. Pettibone

You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me.

~ J. Sheridan Le Fanu

I'm serious, Jim. You need to put this crap away. You walk into school on Monday talking to me, or anyone else, about the city's pesky troll problem, and you're not exactly going to get a lot of people saying, 'Gee, thanks for the warning.' It'll spread faster than mono. You think things are tough for us now? Jim, this will be the end. I'm sorry if you had a crazy nightmare. I really am. But I can't let you ruin our lives.

~ Guillermo Del Toro

He paused in the hallway, sniffing the air. He scowled, sniffed some more. He pressed an intercom button on the wall. Betty, I distinctly smell sewage. Could you get a plumber out here ASAP? Several curly hairs fluttered in the air after he was gone. I clutched at the arm of the dentist chair. This isn't a joke, Tub! I'm in trouble. We're all in trouble, the whole town, the whole world! You have no clue. You have no idea what kind of things we're dealing with here. There's a whole land of --

~ Guillermo Del Toro

Don't be afraid of the dark, it's a place where you can hide.

~ August Verona

From Bralloc’s mounted position he could see over the heads of most of his men, but the thickening darkness of evening coupled with the storm made it impossible to see more than a few yards. He jerked at the reins and swung his horse around, pushing into the crowd. The large grey charger was nearly as mean-spirited as her owner; she snorted and bucked her head, then nipped, stomped and shoved her way through, giving every indication that she was enjoying herself. His men drew to either side, and the crawling excitement in Bralloc’s belly became an angry swarm of insects. The scout – the ballsy woman whose name he could never remember - stood several paces away. Bralloc paid her no heed, however, and the mixture of nervousness, relief and fear on her face didn’t even register in his mind: his eyes were locked on the captive at her side. His lips twitched into a smile and he licked them, like a ghoul eyeing a fresh corpse. He forced himself to move slowly, deliberately – sucking each individual drop of marrow from the bones of his anticipation...-From 'Feral

~ T.b. Schmid

Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.

~ Criss Jami

Lilith came to Longinus in the night, as she often did, and the darkness of the cave was filled with the lustful sounds of their passionate couplings. Afterwards, as he lay back with his eyes closed, she ran her cool fingers playfully across his chest and whispered honeyed words in his ear.

~ Alan Kinross

I write fiction. It may have mystery, it may have horror, it may have fantasy, it may have love, but like life, it's all the same genre.

~ Don Roff

A crush of bodies surrounded the featureless monument. The enraged dead clambered atop their ghastly kin. Caiaphas tucked his knees to his chest and hugged his legs tightly, staring at the scores of ragged, flailing hands as they scratched for purchase over the edge of the cylinder. Metal thrummed and thunder roared, filling his head. Now there were words within the deafening roar. “Straaaange,” they seemed to say. “Daaaace…” “Straaaangerrrr…” Then a quick, awful chant: “CAIAPHAS! FOREVER! CAI—” And with a piercing whistle it ended as his eardrums burst.

~ Scott Kaelen

First, I'm a writer; I look at things from a different point of view. The untrained eye is the eye that sees what's been missed.Devon, from The Dragon's Breath by Jenna Lindsey

~ Jenna Lindsey

Hell, he now understood, went beyond simple torture. Hell inflicted agony with intermittent reprieves to maintain the hope of peace. Hell was not endless dark, but rare rays of sunlight to keep one’s eyes longing for their bright beauty. Hell forced hours of suffocation beneath the freezing water with times of release to keep one accustomed to the joy of breath, to let needful expectation be repeatedly stabbed by deprivation.

~ Daniel Ionson

Behind every legendary monster, there is an unknown tragedy.

~ Julie Deshtor