Simon Strantzas > Quotes

“The human primate has evolved, but we still grow canines, we make fire, and keep our weapons and our dogs close to hand.”
― Simon Strantzas, Burnt Black Suns: A Collection of Weird Tales

“It was only in the dark when a broken doll’s face made any sense.”
― Simon Strantzas, Burnt Black Suns: A Collection of Weird Tales

“Charles Simic once said that when you lean over to lace up your shoes, you “look into the earth.” Simon Strantzas knows the truth of it. He’s come with shovel and pickaxe to show you the way.”
― Simon Strantzas, Burnt Black Suns: A Collection of Weird Tales

“I believe people have the right to diminish themselves if they so desire. I”
― Simon Strantzas, Aickman's Heirs

“I think there's nothing out there but cold darkness. Nothing but an endless vacuum, and it's only by a freak chance we're alive to know it.”
― Simon Strantzas, Cold to the Touch

“The human primate has evolved, but we still grow canines, we make fire, and keep our”
― Simon Strantzas, Burnt Black Suns: A Collection of Weird Tales

“I had neither the complexion nor the stamina for excavation proper: in proper sunlight I curl up and wither like a slug.”
― Simon Strantzas, Aickman's Heirs

“The girl cooked the gruel, but her father provided the anger, the hatred. After”
― Simon Strantzas, Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 3

“I suppose we’re all just an amalgamation of our childhood fears and instincts; no matter what our brains know, sometimes old fear runs much deeper than logic can dam.”
― Simon Strantzas, Burnt Black Suns: A Collection of Weird Tales

“the idea that there is something beyond the world we know, something we can’t understand, is such an intrinsically terrifying notion that it doesn’t matter if that something means us harm or not.”
― Simon Strantzas, Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 3

“Each day we trudge through factory gates and lean into our traces and forget. Death and worse are easily dismissed over dram and darts while the lamp shines warm and cozy.”
― Simon Strantzas, Burnt Black Suns: A Collection of Weird Tales