Horror Quotes

For a moment, Simon's sympathetic nervous system forgot he was arachnophobic. The sight of those spindly legs rising, like an ink drawing popping out of paper into three-dimensional space, should have caused a surge of adrenaline, a yelp of panic, and at least three feet of involuntary back-peddling.

~ A. Ashley Straker

Leaning forward in the chair, Harley squeezed out a controlled fart, so no one could hear it. This damn reception area was like a echo chamber. If he weren’t careful, it could reverberate around the hall like a shotgun blast.

~ Alan Kinross

And now the bad Mommy was here – outside his window. With a little whimper, he ran back to the bed, jumped in, and pulled the covers over his head.Good Mommy was gone now…and bad Mommy had come to eat him up.

~ Alan Kinross

Something was wrong with the devices themselves. Digging deep into the internal structure of the circuit boards with powerful microscopes, Simon's team had discovered broken and incorrect connections, electronic dead-ends, short circuits, and nonsensical pathways.

~ A. Ashley Straker

The unfortunate 8075 hadn't survived his assault, splintering apart, fragments of its casing skittering across the bench. The battery within had split along its plane, revealing something as out-of-place as a missile in a bathtub.

~ A. Ashley Straker

No, not horror. Enlightenment.

~ Tim W. Burke

He had no problem with flies or bugs or beetles, even creepy ones like earwigs and cockroaches...Six legs were fine, but eight were alien and unnatural.'The same number of legs as four fully-grown serial killers!

~ A. Ashley Straker

Odessa sighed. 'When I said you were one of the smartest people in the company, I was referring solely to your technical abilities. Now get to work.

~ A. Ashley Straker

But the things in the batteries couldn't be spiders. It just wasn't possible. There had to be another explanation. But of what kind?

~ A. Ashley Straker

He reached the ground floor and flung the door open, fleeing into the street. He glanced back and saw that she wasn't following, so he slowed to a halt. His pulse raced. The entranceway was dark, the door swinging slowly closed. Movement to his left caught his attention: the camera on the corner of the building that covered the resident's parking. It swivelled to point directly at him, and he stared at it for a moment, suddenly doubtful it was a closed-circuit system after all.He ran for his car, and the camera followed.

~ A. Ashley Straker

Simon shook his head. 'I don't want to be a hero. I'd rather abandon the technology altogether, sit on a hill and speak to my neighbours by smoke-signal.

~ A. Ashley Straker

...a fissure appeared. Splinters of plastic broke away around it, and the fissure widened, radiating further fractures.When the first leg broke out, Simon tried to shriek.

~ A. Ashley Straker

This is what my high school life had become—a horror show of epic, mind-fuck proportions.

~ G.g. Silverman

Who gave you a gun?''The army.''Why?''That's what the army does, Simon.

~ A. Ashley Straker

All she could see was her demise and it called out a tempting ruse, offering a suffering less potent than what sickened the living.

~ B.b. Wynter

The military operation swiftly became one of disaster management and damage control, search and rescue.

~ A. Ashley Straker

He realised he was in a chair. The world was white and blurry in half his vision, and it took him a few moments to realise a sheet of paper was stuck to his face.

~ A. Ashley Straker

God isn't here. God doesn't even know about this place

~ Johan Harstad

I like to make blank pages darker. It's this thing I do.

~ Rob E. Boley

Everything is worse...if you think something is looking at you.

~ Shirley Jackson

Sometimes you can lock the doors and close the blinds, but the monsters are still there inside your house, sleeping and breathing and just waiting to wake up and terrorize you all over again.

~ Travis Thrasher

Sometimes, we are so focused on what we want that we are blind to the things that make us happy. It’s just incredible, and when I focus on what is right in front of me, nothing else matters. All my worries vanish.

~ Paige Dearth

There was one moment of intersection, when the topic of hate-watching came up. Why do you watch TV shows--and keep watching them--if you don't like them? Terrence asked.Simple: Some days, all you have is gazing upon horror, and the small comfort of being surprised that it is not yours.

~ Colson Whitehead

She leaned forward and whispered sensuously in his ear, 'I am Lilith and you are mine now - forever.

~ Alan Kinross

Wives of criminals, Massau later reflected, were indeed an interesting lot. There are those who, real panthers in madness, defend their men with claws out; there are the cold and insensitive ones, who wrestling step by step, discuss each argument and answer your questions with other questions; there are the stubborn ones who can pass the entire night in total silence against the light of the interrogation; there are still others, who, shaken and in distress, discover as you do that they have lived for years beside a monster.

~ David King

How many people has this hotel eaten?

~ Kate Racculia

We may think of ourselves as static anti-heroes, but in reality we're dynamic protagonists just waiting for our courage to kick in.

~ Justin Alcala

It’s not nice to think of children growing up like mushrooms, in the dark.

~ Shirley Jackson

The horror was this: the others.

~ Anne Rice

They shared a sensation that was as addictive as a needle full of heroin to a street junkie.

~ Paige Dearth

He screamed in agony as large black wings erupted from his back - each had four large talons on it.

~ Alan Kinross

Regress towards progress - Dr Wannamaker

~ Lauren Bradshaw

Harley's eyes widened in horror, and a low moan of fear escaped his mouth. The back alley was filled with a vision from Hell.

~ Alan Kinross

Horror. I can't manage it. I become--well--horrified. Self-help books have a similar effect. When asked, Any literary genre you simply can't be bothered with? - (By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from the NYT Book Review, by Pamela Paul)

~ Emma Thompson

He knew his vampire 'sisters' would drain the girls until they were nearly dead, then feed them some of their own blood. That’s when the turning would start - as vampire and human blood mixed - and the parched agony of the Dark Kiss began.

~ Alan Kinross

She emerged from the shadows like an apparition, and he was taken aback by her beauty. Never in his wildest dreams had he expected to chance upon such a vision of loveliness in those harsh and unforgiving mountains. Her beautiful face, long black hair, and slender figure enchanted him.

~ Alan Kinross

It was dark enough that I couldn't make out their features, but I could see that someone was cutting through the links of the fence. There was a sense of urgency about those that watched him, some of them turning to peer over their shoulders into the brush and foliage that edged the fence. I watched them in horror, a sense of dread washing over me. What kind of horrors had they led to our very doorstep?

~ Rose Wynters

I've always said women are vicious creatures - Detective Zach Grimes

~ Lauren Bradshaw

What looked like morning was the beginning of endless night

~ William Peter Blatty

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.

~ H.p. Lovecraft