Horror proverbs

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◆ At bottom, you see, we are not Homo sapiens as all. Our core is madness. The prime directive is murder. What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle. And that is what the Pulse exposed five days ago.

- Stephen King98

◆ Horror is the removal of masks.

- Robert Bloch98

◆ Here then at long last is my darkness. No cry of light, no glimmer, not even the faintest shard of hope to break free across the hold.

- Mark Z. Danielewski98

◆ Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, sells 'em off for a coupla stones.

- Libba Bray98

◆ The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.

- Michel Houellebecq98

◆ Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend the rest of our lives in this state of high alert with guns pointed at each other's heads and fingers trembling on the trigger?

- Arundhati Roy98

◆ Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.

- Robert Anton Wilson98

◆ I am your number one fan.

- Stephen King98

◆ It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

- Elizabeth Kostova98

◆ Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.

- Joe Hill98

◆ It is dark. You cannot see. Only the hint of stars out the broken window. And a voice as old as the Snake from the Garden whispers, 'I will hold your hand.

- John Wick98

◆ I am a vampire, and that is the truth.

- Christopher Pike98

◆ The charm of horror only tempts the strong

- Jean Lorrain98

◆ A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life, they must shift their emphasis towards something to which they can be true; namely, certain wistful or restless moods of the human spirit, wherein it seeks to weave gossamer ladders of escape from the galling tyranny of time, space, and natural law.

- H.P. Lovecraft98

◆ To be thoroughly conversant with Man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair

- Edgar Allan Poe98