Peter Laws > Quotes

“I wasn’t drawn to creepy, scary things because I was obsessed with total darkness. I was also too realistic to be obsessed with total light. It was the combination of light and dark that made me feel alive.”
― Peter Laws, The Frighteners: A Celebration of our Fascination with the Macabre

“All species are attracted—and repelled—by novelty. If you do not explore you don’t progress.”
― Peter Laws, The Frighteners: A Celebration of our Fascination with the Macabre

“Despite the fact that Jesus came to demonstrate a model of leadership defined by love, care, honour and sacrifice, we humans took the word “dominion” and stripped it down to being all about hierarchy. Animals became little more than resources to use and exploit. Because we’ve seen animals as resources for so long, raised for meat and skins, we’ve historically seen them as inferior to us—“base” creatures with limited or no intelligence or capacity for emotion. Certainly not something we would wish to become.”
― Peter Laws, The Frighteners: A Celebration of our Fascination with the Macabre

“courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s acting in the face of it.”
― Peter Laws, The Frighteners: A Celebration of our Fascination with the Macabre

“Both we and zombies are hopelessly addicted to consumption.”
― Peter Laws, The Frighteners: A Celebration of our Fascination with the Macabre

“I saw a photo the other day of a plastic baby-changing unit, one of those drop-down ones you get in public toilets. Somebody had written on it: PLACE SACRIFICE HERE.”
― Peter Laws, The Frighteners: A Celebration of our Fascination with the Macabre

“Werewolfism may have scared men in particular, being less accustomed than women to the idea of a monthly, biological cycle beyond their control, which involves the shedding of blood, not to mention a potentially beastly mood.”
― Peter Laws, The Frighteners: Why We Love Monsters, Ghosts, Death & Gore

“The executive director of the United Nations World Food Program recently took up the popular saying that society is only seven meals away from anarchy.17”
― Peter Laws, The Frighteners: A Celebration of our Fascination with the Macabre

“Be who you want to be, okay? Be you.”
― Peter Laws, The Frighteners: A Celebration of our Fascination with the Macabre

“Moro reflex, which proves that human beings have at least one inbuilt, unlearned fear.”
― Peter Laws, The Frighteners: A Celebration of our Fascination with the Macabre

“murderabilia.”
― Peter Laws, The Frighteners: A Celebration of our Fascination with the Macabre

“Father Cataldo Migliazzo”
― Peter Laws, The Frighteners: A Celebration of our Fascination with the Macabre

“Sister Death” was a completely natural part of existence, and her arrival didn’t mark the end of life, only the end of the beginning.16”
― Peter Laws, The Frighteners: A Celebration of our Fascination with the Macabre

“The World of Strange Phenomena” since the 1970s, and it’s inspired by the work of Charles Hoy Fort (1874–1932).”
― Peter Laws, The Frighteners: A Celebration of our Fascination with the Macabre

“I wasn’t drawn to creepy, scary things because I was obsessed with total darkness. I was also too realistic to be obsessed with total light.”
― Peter Laws, The Frighteners: A Celebration of our Fascination with the Macabre

“Kingdom Come Church was a colossal old gargoyle crouching on the top of the hill. Its centuries-old spire crumbled at the edges, threatening to topple over at any point and spike someone in the heart.”
― Peter Laws, Purged

“William Seabrook was a fascinating and controversial man.”
― Peter Laws, The Frighteners: A Celebration of our Fascination with the Macabre

“1950s serial killer Charlie Starkweather.”
― Peter Laws, The Frighteners: A Celebration of our Fascination with the Macabre