Eric

“Everybody has a function, everybody in a slasher cycle has a role—isn’t that a line from the Bible, even? Not the over-the-top violent one Craven and Carpenter wrote, with all the massacres and gore, but the other violent one with all the massacres and gore. The one where revenge comes not in a hulking shape lurking at the edge of the light but as a series of plagues that starts out feeling random, come to feel a lot more like justice, like the scales rebalancing. Same thing, different church.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw

“It's good being the horror chick, sure, always standing away from the rest of the crowd, smoking bitter cigarette after bitter cigarette, she'd have it no other way, but it's nice to make eye contact with someone else with a black heart, too, and then breathe smoke out slow, like judgment.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw

“…this is why slashers really wear masks, sir. It’s so you won’t see them smile.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw

“Freddy never uses a gun, does he? Ghostface? Michael? Jade can’t even imagine Michael Myers using a gun. They’re so impersonal, so “all at once” instead of “one at a time.” Jason Voorhees? C’mon. He’ll use a speargun, sure, but that’s just for a 3-D gag. No, any self-respecting slasher finding a pistol in his hand, what he’s supposed to do is look down at it like it’s a strange bug, then shake his hand until this bitey, attention-drawing thing is gone again.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Don't Fear the Reaper