Horror Genre Quotes

“God help me, I’m gonna make sure we get out of this alive and I’m going to kill that son of a bitch...I’m gonna make him wish he never stepped foot in this town” -Emerson Shaw”
― Justin Bienvenue, A Bloody Bloody Mess In the Wild Wild West

“Big Tom Daly didn’t regard himself as squeamish, but in that infinitesimal moment, Big Tom did indeed scream as an eight-year-old boy might. Never had he felt more alive as he landed on that soft-limbed bed of death. He let out a helpless rollicking wail before rolling off his uncomfortably comfortable rigour Mortis mattress with prickling fear and repulsion.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Billy's Experiment: An Old Castle Novel

“So Basically I'm the Antichrist , and the whole world is fucked because of me"
- Jordon Hanson.”
― Barry James

“The mind of the demented was a dangerous place to play and the psychologist never wanted to stay too long for fear of not finding her way back.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Crazy Daisy: An Old Castle Novel

“The sea spits back what doesn’t belong to her.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Hotel Miramar: An Old Castle Novel

“It’s a freak-of-nature reserve.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Hotel Miramar: An Old Castle Novel

“Now listen here Matt, and listen carefully”, the man asserted, “Since I know your dirty little secret, I need you to do something for me”.”
― Saleha A., Caras De Malicia: An Anthology of Random Stories and Poems

“Follow me, and I shall grant you that wish. I pickle youth in a jar of formaldehyde.”
― Jonathan Dunne, The Boneyard: Short fictions of the morbid and macabre: The Boneyard Series: Vol 2

“I’ve been told by a few people at conferences I have a rather academic approach to the subject matter that makes it easy for people to ask questions. I think some genre writers feel the need to “sell” or defend what they do, and so when a door opens to discuss their genre, regardless of what that genre is, they tend to get almost pushy. I’m comfortable with what I write. It is part of who I am. I don’t really need to sell it. But if I’m asked, I’ll explain it.”
― Julie Ann Dawson

“Mike walked about the cavernous basement, alarmed at the serious mould infestation and even more perturbed by the slithering amphibians gathering at his feet. Mike traced the black splotches of mould that took him to a blind spot behind the infinite staircase which was very quickly becoming the stairway to Hell.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Billy's Experiment: An Old Castle Novel

“Mike Devine loomed up again, trying not to lose sight of that hole in the trembling light. He wasn’t sure if it was the matrix of luminescence and shadow, but the gravedigger was almost certain the black mass of mould — the scab — pulsed ever so slightly, like a dying pockmarked blackened heart.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Billy's Experiment: An Old Castle Novel

“Moonspelled by this abomination, mischievous unto this crimson, inverted within this underworld, I am the rabbit that is plagued with an unknown nightmare.”
― D.L. Lewis

“Through my departed spirituality that once enlightened me, I pour out the forbidden magic that the Divine has prohibited. I, lonesome and inky with disfigured knowledge, hold firmly to the influence of Lovecraft & Poe. I abide for the blackness, for I am the rabbit's disciple of sinister terror, beautiful dreamscapes, and bizarre phenomena.”
― D.L. Lewis

“It was but a brief window in this tower of madness and mayhem, for the true carnival of horror was waiting just inside the door.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Crazy Daisy: An Old Castle Novel

“In all his evangelical glory, Bogdan popped up and stared down at the taxi driver from the rancid dumpster like a delirious Jack-in-the-Box. ‘I feel restless.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Crazy Daisy: An Old Castle Novel

“You’re a make-believe man!”
― Jonathan Dunne, Crazy Daisy: An Old Castle Novel

“The drunk watched it come from between the man’s lips, a small nebulous cloud that kind of looked like the foreigner was blowing a bubble of fog in his unconscious state. The shroud floated silently from his lips and hovered over his chest, almost sitting on his sternum. In the adjacent cell, Connie forgot to breathe when he saw a face — a woman’s face — manifest in the cloud, looking about the cell in slow motion. The long lank hair, albino white, hung about her doughy pale face in wet strands. The closed mouth was too wide for the face and didn’t appear to have lips, just a thin line curving into a vague amphibious Mona Lisa smile which took Connie back five decades to his childhood pet frog, Leap. The black eyes moved slowly about the room, left and right. That nightmarish countenance turned to Connie and held him in its vacant gaze. He saw how the mouth opened and closed, almost like a fish…or was she saying something to him? The eyes weren’t completely black. Connie made out a fine ring of white around the rims of those hallucinogenic pupils. Her eyes were two solar eclipses.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Crazy Daisy: An Old Castle Novel

“Rocky is your cannibal father.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Hotel Miramar: An Old Castle Novel

“The family was murdered during the night. Every. Single. One. The newspapers reported they were on the hunt for a man, but all the descriptions were weak.”
― C. J. Daley, BestGhost

“Don’t you worry your pretty little head about that. We have certain privileges around here. We can open doors where there are no doors.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Dead Ends

“Daddy was a glitch in the spiderwebbing fabric of this nightmare.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Dead Ends

“For us, memories are a curse. They pain us, shape us, and we bear them the best we can.”
― Zachariah Chamberlin, We Come Bearing Curses

“Are you afraid to discover the creatures of the dark. Turn off the lights after 3am. I dare you”
― Dean Mackin

“Smile. Death is always watching in comfort. When you need it, it will be there and ready for you”
― Dean Mackin

“Your God wanted to light the match; it was I who begged the question of how long it would take for the place to burn down.”
― Michael Harbron, Interview with the Devil

“A writer can fix poor mechanics, but a bad idea will always be a bad idea.”
― C. Fear, Heaven's Captives: A Psychological Horror Thriller

“Now it’s your turn to burn.”
― Jonathan Dunne, Fireman

“An evil chill seemed to rise up around her shoulders, spread to her back, and began to slither down her spine, lower and lower. Her T-shirt was soaked with cold sweat. Her physical responses were too strong for it to be just her imagination.

.... Didn't someone say your body is more honest than your mind?”
― Kōji Suzuki, Ring

“Gary Gillespie had seen too much in life to believe in life after death.”
― Jonathan Dunne, The Reek: An Old Castle Novel

“Some bloodlines inherit wealth. Ours inherited a promise.”
― Kanna