Horror Fiction Quotes

“Cats are the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there”
― Stephen King, Pet Sematary

“Time is tick, tick, ticking away. How many souls will I capture today? Will they be a challenge or will they be given? Only time will tell as the clock keeps tick, tick, ticking. Your god has arrived with enough hatred for y’all, with enough evil for the big and small, so come one, come all. I will shred your souls and place them in my satchel, call you a settler and make you my peddler. Come one, come all, come stand behind your god. I will lead you into the darkness of Earth's end. Come one, come all, my wilted flowers, come claim your title, speak out and cheer it. Come one, come all, let’s have a ball, my wilted flowers . . . Sweet, Unconquerable Spirits.”
― A.K. Kuykendall, The Possession

“For thin is the veil betwixt man and the godless deep. The skies are haunted by that which it were madness to know; and strange abominations pass evermore between earth and moon and athwart the galaxies. Unnameable things have come to us in alien horror and will come again. And the evil of the stars is not as the evil of earth.”
― Clark Ashton Smith, The Beast Of Averoigne

“The radio only played static and screams. Tune in, and it tunes into you—your fears, your sins, your final destination.”
― Jack D. Ace, Ghoul Car: The Road Never Ends

“Yeah, I'm a cow, man. Can you handle it?”
― Matthew Stokoe, Cows

“But I smiled. Because that’s what I do when I’m falling apart.”
― Poheli Author, Lust Marked: The beginning of the End

“Memory is a slow fire. It burns low. It burns long. And when it finally finds new kindling,
the whole world goes up in flames.”
― Jack D. Ace, Plague House: The Nazi Formula's Curse

“They rode the dead as though the corpses could still feel, as though death itself could be fucked into submission. But death only watches. And waits.”
― Jack D. Ace, Plague House: The Nazi Formula's Curse

“The fog hid more than the mountains.”
― Naiyem Chowdhury Rony, Into the Pines

“Staří učitelé chemie slibovali nemožnosti a neuskutečnili nic. Moderní vědci slibují velmi málo; vědí, že kovy nelze přeměňovat a že elixír života je chiméra. Ale tito vědci, jejichž ruce jako by byly stvořeny jen k tomu, aby se patlaly ve špíně, a oči k tomu, aby se soustředěně dívaly do mikroskopu nebo kelímku, ve skutečnosti vykonali zázraky. Pronikají do nejzazších koutů přírody a objevují, v čem jsou skryta její tajemství. Vystupují na nebesa - objevili, jak koluje krev i jaké má vlastnosti vzduch, který dýcháme. Dosáhli nové a téměř neomezené moci: dovedou poroučet bleskům z nebe, napodobovat zemětřesení, a dokonce se vysmývat neviditelnému světu jeho vlastními stíny.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“But I could hear Mitzi nearby. She was still upstairs. If she saw me reading the comic book, she’d run downstairs and tell Dad for sure. Mitzi’s hobby is being a snitch.”
― R.L. Stine, Attack of the Mutant

“Sometimes the static between words tells the darkest story.”
― Naiyem Chowdhury Rony, Silent Frequency

“Every historian eventually becomes history.”
― Naiyem Chowdhury Rony, The Gallery of Shadows

“The hum wasn’t loud.
It didn’t need to be.
It lived inside your bones.”
― Naiyem Chowdhury Rony, The House on Ashwood Lane

“The reflection raised its hand before I did.”
― Naiyem Chowdhury Rony, The House on Widow Lane

“Maps don’t always tell the truth.”
― Naiyem Chowdhury Rony, Buried in Silence

“The walls get thin on Tuesdays.”
― S. A. Asghar, The Oakhaven Blank

“Memories live inside the eyelids”
― Joseph Fink, The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home

“he whistle means he is far away. The silence means he is close.”
― Arturo Cova, Ecos del Miedo / Echoes of Fear: Horror Stories from the Heart of Latin America

“I write for the readers who like their stories dark, sharp, and impossible to forget.”
― C.M. Soliz, The Angel of Death

“Water has a memory. It remembers the shape of things submerged. It remembers the final breaths of those who surrender to its depths. It remembers the paths their lives would have taken.

Most of all, it remembers the face outside, holding you down by the neck, looking down onto the now-still surface.”
― Arnab Ray, The Bucket

“Okay, how about this? 'Spirits in torment! Do they really come back to the scenes of their tragedies? Bound there forever, even in death?”
― Richie Tankersley Cusick, Trick or Treat

“The werewolf has been romanced and watered down until there's nothing left to fear. I wanted to give it back its teeth.”
― Elias J. Holloway, Shadow of the Wolves: book 1 of 3

“Things seemed to happen fast in Santa Carla.”
― Craig Shaw Gardner, The Lost Boys

“Some books don’t just tell stories—they choose who gets to read them.”
― Naiyem Chowdhury Rony

“The silence wasn’t the absence of sound… it was the absence of interruption.”
― Naiyem Chowdhury Rony, The Echoes of Solitude

“The Bible is a horror novel, and God is the monster.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Atheism Memes: 40 Reasons Why I'm An Atheist

“It was clear that the city had none of the dignity of older capitals. It did not swagger like London, preen like Paris, or prize artistry like Vienna. Manchester was a brute. It pushed up its sleeves, and it smoked, and hammered, and grew.”
― Augusta Achard

“It’s simply that it’s a most delicate and intricate piece of machinery,” Mrs. Montague was saying to Theodora [...]. “The slightest air of disbelief offends it, naturally. How would you feel if people refused to believe in you?”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“All that glitters is not gold...”
― Kevin Delano Hughes, Corporate Climbing