Horror Stories Quotes

“Hey, nit squat! These are written by norms to scare norms. And do you know what the monsters and demons and rancid spirits are? Us, that’s what. You and me. We are the things that come to the norms in nightmares. The thing that lurks in the bell tower and bites out the throats of the choirboys—that’s you, Oly. And the thing in the closet that makes the babies scream in the dark before it sucks their last breath—that’s me. And the rustling in the brush and the strange piping cries that chill the spine on a deserted road at twilight—that’s the twins singing practice scales while they look for berries.
Don't shake your head at me! These books teach me a lot. They don't scare me because they're about me. Turn the page.”
― Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

“The difficulty with Poe is not figuring out which of his stories rise to the level required of this collection, but rather which of his stories to exclude from it.”
― Andrew Barger, The Best Horror Short Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Horror Anthology

“Telling scary stories is something people have done for thousands of years, for most of us like being scared in that way. Since there isn't any danger, we think it is fun.”
― Alvin Schwartz, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

“No wonder that the ghost and goblin stories had a new zest. No wonder that the blood of the more timid grew chill and curdled, that their flesh crept, and their hearts beat irregularly, and the girls peeped fearfully over their shoulders, and huddled close together like frightened sheep, and half-fancied they beheld some impish and malignant face gibbering at them from the darkling corners of the old room. By degrees my high spirits died out, and I felt the childish tremors, long latent, long forgotten, coming over me. I followed each story with painful interest; I did not ask myself if I believed the dismal tales. I listened and fear grew upon me - the blind, irrational fear of our nursery days. ("Horror: A True Tale")”
― John Berwick Harwood, Reign of Terror Volume 2: Great Victorian Horror Stories

“Upon returning home, she immediately donned the long, silky gloves and was immediately transported to a time of her youth, a time no one in town could ever recall, for it never occurred to anyone who knew her that she had ever been young.”
― Brooke Warra

“Hicks szemügyre vette a könyveket, amiket Maura begyűjtött a polcokról: Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Joe Hill.
- Ezek horrortörténetek! - kiáltott fel. - Hagyjuk, hogy az elítéltek ilyesmit olvassanak?
- Csak ezt olvassák, meg a romantikus regényeket, uram - jelentette ki Maura (...).”
― Stephen King, Sleeping Beauties

“Love is a tricky thought. Red blood like red wine abound. Love is a wet dream. Filthy wet. Drowning bones.”
― A.K. Kuykendall

“Rather you marry or not;
You'll regret." -Socrates”
― Bert LaVey, Tales From Hell: 20 Psychological Tales of Horror

“Because horror stories are so suspenseful, I usually read them fast. I even skip entire pages to reach each horrible moment as quickly as possible. But the best horror stories are those I'm barely able to read for even a few lines. I start to read, but suddenly shut the book. I slam it shut without thinking, as if I've seen a spider. And then I break out in chills, certain that the spider is still there inside the book, waiting for me, for whenever I dare to open it again.”
― Ricardo Chávez Castañeda