Horror quotations

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◆ Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.

- Stephen King99

◆ He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it set in again.

- Stephen King98

◆ I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.

- Shirley Jackson98

◆ There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range.

- H.P. Lovecraft98

◆ It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. Could be lots of things. You can't heave them into categories with labels and say they'll act one way or another. That'd be silly. They're people. People who do things. Yes, that's the way to put it. People who *do* things.

- Ray Bradbury98

◆ Hello Clarice...

- Thomas Harris98

◆ You wouldn't think that people would believe that we all got so incredibly beat up—in so many interesting ways—from a bear attack. Especially not when Carmel is sporting a bite mark that is a spot-on match for wounds found at one of the most horrifying crime scenes in recent history. But I never fail to be surprised by what people will believe.

- Kendare Blake98

◆ Which is the true nightmare, the horrific dream that you have in your sleep or the dissatisfied reality that awaits you when you awake?

- Justin Alcala98

◆ Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man.

- John W. Campbell Jr.98

◆ Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up

- Stephen King98

◆ Reality is shaped by the forces that destroy it.

- D. Harlan Wilson98

◆ I have seen many cases like N. during the five years I've been in practice. I sometimes picture these unfortunates as men and women being pecked to death by predatory birds. The birds are invisible - at least until a psychiatrist who is good, or lucky, or both, sprays them with his version of Luminol and shines the right light on them - but they are nevertheless very real. The wonder is that so many OCDs manage to live productive lives, just the same. They work, they eat (often not enough or too much, it's true), they go to movies, they make love to their girlfriends and boyfriends, their wives and husbands . . . and all the time those birds are there, clinging to them and pecking away little bits of flesh.

- Stephen King98

◆ The things a man sees when he ain't got a gun.--Watson the Caretaker

- Stephen King98

◆ I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.

- Bram Stoker98

◆ That sure as fuck ain't no cow

- Scott Sigler98