Quotes About Horror

A monster movie is only as good as the monster in it.

The locker at the end of her bed had no lock, and one of the hinges was busted. She opened it up. There was a thing in it. The thing might have been a sandwich at some point, or an animal, or a human hand...but what it was now was fuzzy and putrid. A minute later, Ginny was down the stairs, out the door, and gone.

No, hear me out. This whole thing is ticking a lot of the horror movie boxes. Murder at a sleepaway camp. A serial killer. A final girl. A kid who died because some teenagers were being irresponsible.

She had ordered him out of her office, and had sat in incredulous horror before the fact that the most vicious statement she had ever heard had been uttered in a tone of moral righteousness.

humanity's darkest evil, the most destructive horror machine among all the devices of men, is non-objective law.

So after centuries of being pounded with the doctrine that altruism is the ultimate ideal, men have accepted it in the only way it could be accepted. By seeking self-esteem through others. By living second-hand. And it has opened the way for every kind of horror. It has become the dreadful form of selfishness which a truly selfish man couldn't have conceived. And now, to cure a world perishing from selflessness, we're asked to destroy the self.

Para el salvaje, el mundo es un lugar de prodigios ininteligibles, donde todo es posible para la materia inanimada y nada es posible para él. Su mundo no es lo desconocido, sino un horror irracional: lo desconocible. Cree que los objetos físicos están dotados de una misteriosa voluntad, movidos por caprichos sin causa, imposibles de predecir, mientras él no es más que un peón impotente, a merced de fuerzas situadas fuera de su control.

Lo había arrojado prácticamente de su despacho, permaneciendo sentada, presa de incrédulo horror, pensando en que la frase más venenosa que hubiera oído jamás había sido pronunciada como quien declara un principio de integridad moral.

Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.

Guilt is what happens when there isn't a group to shame you. Regret, horror, atrocity—if the group doesn't care, we simply invent a God who does. A God who might be swayed by the subsequent good acts, or at least efforts, of an erstwhile wrongdoer.

Saturn Devouring His Son

There had never been a killing like it.

Until that afternoon in October four years ago, I hadn't known dogs could scream.

The author of so many evils," he said.

He had begun business many years ago—as a wandering peddler on the blind face of a distant land, a peddler who carried his wares on his back, a peddler who usually came at the fall of darkness and was always gone the next morning, leaving bloodshed, horror, and unhappiness behind him.

She looked at Danny. His face was all eyes. His mouth was pressed into a frightened, bloodless slit.

And watch out for the blade, Constant Reader. It is a Stephen King story, after all.

What he saw then was terrible enough to make his worst imaginings of the thing in the cellar look like sweet dreams; what he saw destroyed

Is Stephen King the Crimson King of this world?

A crazy certainty had arisen in his mind: a hand - or perhaps a claw - was going to swim up from the grayness of the Kindle's screen, grab him by the throat, and yank him in.

Graffiti scratched on a desk of the Barker Street Grammar School in Chamberlain: Carrie White eats shit.

But he could not call the doctors at the leprosarium. They would return him to Louisiana. They would treat him and train him and counsel him. They would put him back into life as if his illness were all that mattered, as if wisdom were only skin deep, as if grief and remorse and horror were nothing but illusions, tricks done with mirrors, irrelevant to chrome and porcelain and clean, white, stiff hospital sheets and fluorescent lights.

In perfect unison, all the townspeople vomited gouts of blood onto the pavement.

I love when you go to a horror film with real horror fans and everybody's there watching, getting involved and screaming. That's when it's most alive and exciting for me.