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“i felt more than a little monstrous myself back then, carrying all my secret inner thoughts and worries, unsure of where or how I fit into the world, and I often daydreamed of actually becoming a monster. I wished for it. I wanted to shed my human skin and all my messy human emotions and go full-on monster.”
Quote by Jennifer McMahon, author of The Winter People
— Sep 21, 2026 07:11AM
Quote by Jennifer McMahon, author of The Winter People
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Eve Castle
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Instead of an essay, Josh Malerman, author of Bird Box, told a story of a conversation with a stranger on a train:
“Horror, Tim, is an optimistic thing. Because it suggests there is more to this life than we know and what we accept as possible. And what is more optimistic than more?”
— 19 hours, 42 min ago
“Horror, Tim, is an optimistic thing. Because it suggests there is more to this life than we know and what we accept as possible. And what is more optimistic than more?”
Eve Castle
is on page 91 of 272
“While I was working as an executive producer on the Shudder documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror, I realized that my mother was not alone. In many black families —and no doubt in many families period—horror served as a balm to soothe the trauma of being outsiders in our own nation.”
Quote by Tananarive Due, author of The Reformatory.
— Sep 20, 2026 05:45PM
Quote by Tananarive Due, author of The Reformatory.
Eve Castle
is on page 77 of 272
“Always remember what the great Werner Herzog said: “The Universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man.” We are but a speck of dust floating in an expanding, infinite universe. If that’s not horror, I don’t know what is.”
#quote by Gabino Iglesias, masterful horror author of House of Bone and Rain, and other works.
— Sep 20, 2026 07:47AM
#quote by Gabino Iglesias, masterful horror author of House of Bone and Rain, and other works.
Eve Castle
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“The thing you must know is the simple physics of genocide: it’s impossible to eliminate a lot of people at one time without the participation of the citizenry. < . . . > Consider this your wake-up call. We’re afraid of the wrong things. We are the monsters.”
Quote by Alma Katsu, author of The Hunger, The Deep, and The Fervor. Historical horror fiction author.
— Sep 19, 2026 06:30AM
Quote by Alma Katsu, author of The Hunger, The Deep, and The Fervor. Historical horror fiction author.
Eve Castle
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“I love that horror can be a refuge. If you’ve been made at one point to feel like an outsider —a monster—then some of the creatures everyone else is so afraid of begin to feel like kin.”
Quote by Hailey Piper, author of Queen of Teeth
— Sep 17, 2026 03:03PM
Quote by Hailey Piper, author of Queen of Teeth
Eve Castle
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“Horror, as a marketing category, always does better in times of national or global turmoil.”
Quote from Brian Keene in the 1st essay in the book.
— Sep 16, 2026 06:01PM
Quote from Brian Keene in the 1st essay in the book.