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“I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: frankenstein, gothic, horror, mary-shelley

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#3

“Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.”
― R.L. Stine

tags: diversity, horror, reading

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#4

“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

tags: comedy, horror, misattributed-ben-franklin

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#5

“From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Tales of H.P. Lovecraft

tags: horror, irony

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#6

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

tags: dark-tower, horror

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#7

“Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volumes One to Three

tags: blood, equality, horror, reading

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#8

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

tags: horror, house

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#9

“Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.”
― Stephen King, It

tags: clown, eddie, fear, grownups, horror, it, monster, pennywise, stephen-king

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#10

“[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.”
― Clive Barker

tags: chaos, horror, illusion, oblivion, reality, truth

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#11

“Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

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#12

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
― Stephen King

tags: authors, books, dark, horror, inspirational, inspiring-quotes, minds, quotes, reading, steven-king, writers

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#13

“Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

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#14

“Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

tags: black-humor, horror, trivia

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#15

“I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times.”
― Robert Bloch, Psycho

tags: horror, psycho

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#16

“I have seen the dark universe yawning
Where the black planets roll without aim,
Where they roll in their horror unheeded,
Without knowledge, or lustre, or name.”
― H. P. Lovecraft, Nemesis

tags: dark-universe, horror

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#17

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
― Robert Bloch

tags: horror, inspirational, misattributed-to-stephen-king

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#18

“The shortest horror story:

The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.”
― Frederic Brown

tags: funny, horror

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#19

“Swear to me swear to me that if it isn't dead you'll all come back.”
― Stephen King, It (Eso)

tags: horror

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#20

“I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

tags: ghost, haunted-houses, horror

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#21

“Horror is the removal of masks.”
― Robert Bloch

tags: horror, masks

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#22

“I am your number one fan.”
― Stephen King, Misery

tags: horror

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#23

“Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.”
― Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

tags: fear, horror, imagination

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#24

“But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.”
― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

tags: carmilla, classic, gothic, horror, joseph-sheridan-le-fanu

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#25

“No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.”
― H. P. Lovecraft, Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales

tags: horror, life, ordinary

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#26

“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. Lovecraft, The Thing on the Doorstep

tags: horror

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#27

“Vampires, real vampires, didn't nibble on the necks of nubile young virgins. They tore people to pieces and sucked the blood out of the chunks. ”
― David Wellington, 99 Coffins

tags: horror, vampires

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#28

“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 King, Full Dark, No Stars

tags: full-dark-no-stars, hell, horror, stephen-king, thirst

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#29

“He lives down in a ribcage in the dry leaves of a heart.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

tags: hannibal, heart, heartless, heartlessness, horror, human-nature, monster, murder, psychopath, psychopaths, serial-killer, soul, the-silence-of-the-lambs

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#30

“I'm giving serious thought into eating yor wife” - Hannibal Lecter”
― Thomas Harris

tags: horror, suspense, thriller

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