#horro

My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know. The rest is no business of any man's. ↗

— John Connolly

#fairy-tales #gruesome #horror #business

To those of you who are yet to plunge into the zygote pool and want to know what both plumbless horror and pure love feels like, have yourself a baby... ↗

— Conrad Williams

#love #parenting #love

When Stephen King elaborated on his inspirations for his novel "Carrie" he draws from a time when he was a young man, and describes his impression when he came upon a statue of Christ on the cross, hanging there in misery, and he thought "If THAT guy ever came back, he probably wouldn't be in a saving mood." ↗

— Stephen King

#horror-writer #writing-inspiration #inspirational

Even the most impassioned devotee of the ghost story would admit that the taste for it is slightly abnormal, a survival, perhaps, from adolescence, a disease of deficiency suffered by those whose lives and imaginations do not react satisfactorily to normal experience and require an extra thrill ↗

— L.P. Hartley

#supernatural #experience

I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary. ↗

— Sergio Aragones

#brain #getting #horror #i #i think

Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation. ↗

— Dario Argento

#definition #emotion #fearful #horror #pure

I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#cliched #effect #fiction #film #had

So Basically I'm the Antichrist , and the whole world is fucked because of me" - Jordon Hanson. ↗

— Barry James

#horror-genre #humour #dreams

I'm constantly watching people. Watching their strengths and weaknesses. I find myself going into theater less and less, let alone horror. I gave that up when I was seven or eight years old. ↗

— Jonathan Frid

#constantly #eight #find #gave #going

When I need the idea, I can find it immediately. I have a horror of rewriting or deleting; the parts of my composition are carried in my head 'till I can write them down, even to the last note. Then I do not alter a jot. ↗

— Ruggero Leoncavallo

#carried #composition #down #even #find