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Quotes About Horror

Scarecrows weren't meant to scare the crows, they were meant to scare the corn. It was enough to give a person nightmares. Otherwise, why would so many horror movies have cornfields in them?
~ Laura Ruby
I wasn't crying, my eyes were running. My eyes were running because there were pieces of zombies all over my toys. Jesus.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
One serial killer sends me a human head in a box, and I get all spooked; Go figure.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Who would have ever thought I'd be afraid of a zombie, any kind of zombie? Nicely ironic that.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
You look like a B-movie Dracula.' - Anita to Aubrey Guilty Pleasures
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
There were other marshals over talking to the local police, but it was just Edward and me standing in the middle of the scattered body parts. Maybe the others had gotten tired of looking at them;
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Japanese soldiers split open the stomachs of pregnant women and bayoneted the fetuses; they tied up local farmers and used them for target practice; they tortured thousands of innocent people in ways that rival the Gestapo at its worst; and they were pursuing deadly medical experiments long before Dr. Mengele and Auschwitz.
~ Laurence Rees
Broken leaves flew into the air from the violence of his thrashing, and the gore and blood kept pouring from the black hole in his belly and from his mouth - surely enough blood for ten men, a sight horrid enough to make God Himself weep - and suddenly, his boots stopped running and his form stilled and then......Death caught him.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Tell me this is a nightmare
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
A poem with its throat cut from ear to ear. The Daily Mirror
~ Lawrence Durrell
was horrified too at the banality of her dancing, which was bad beyond measure; yet watching her make those gentle and ineffectual movements of her slim hands and feet (the air of a gazelle harnessed to a water-wheel)
~ Lawrence Durrell
Halloween put me on the map, and I'm very sad to hear of his death.
~ John Carpenter
I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.
~ Nicolas Cage
In fantasy, impossible things exist. In science fiction, impossible things exist and can be understood by humans. In supernatural horror, impossible things exist and cannot live in peace with humans.
~ Will Shetterly
My interest in film is sort of catholic - apart from science fiction and horror movies, I'll watch almost everything.
~ James Dyson
When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands on.
~ John Darnielle
F***ing triffids.
~ Scott B. Pruden
Every dead body that is not exterminated, gets up and kills. The people it kills, get up and kill!
~ Dr. James Foster
Twice the size of a full grown man, with four muscular arms, it was his worst nightmare on steroids. -The Hyperscape Project
~ Donald Swan
All that is left to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
One traveler to the Congo came on a deserted town where a fifteen-foot boa constrictor was dining on smallpox victims' flesh, and on another where the vultures were so gorged that they were too heavy to fly.
~ Adam Hochschild
Horror gives place to wonder at your true account; The rest outstrips our comprehension; we give up.
~ Aeschylus
Look at him, look how he drips unhealth—shudder object!
~ Aeschylus
And because circumstances rarely match, and one afternoon can be a patchwork of both joy and horror, the taste of the soup washed through me
~ Aimee Bender