#horro

They told of dripping stone walls in uninhabited castles and of ivy-clad monastery ruins by moonlight, of locked inner rooms and secret dungeons, dank charnel houses and overgrown graveyards, of footsteps creaking upon staircases and fingers tapping at casements, of howlings and shriekings, groanings and scuttlings and the clanking of chains, of hooded monks and headless horseman, swirling mists and sudden winds, insubstantial specters and sheeted creatures, vampires and bloodhounds, bats and rats and spiders, of men found at dawn and women turned white-haired and raving lunatic, and of vanished corpses and curses upon heirs. ↗

— Susan Hill

#ghosts #gothic #graveyards #horror #ruins

The impulse came to her clairvoyantly, and she obeyed without a sign of hesitation. Deeper comprehension would come to her of the whole awful puzzle. And come it did, yet not in the way she imagined and expected. ↗

— Algernon Blackwood

#creepy #horror #revelation #imagination

A word can change a mind, a sentence can change a life and a book can change the world. ↗

— Tom Kane

#horror #paranormal #change

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#any #horror #national #other #our

People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It's their own little horror show that only they can deal with. ↗

— Bruce Campbell

#deal #frail #get #horror #likely

And I'm auditioning right now for a movie, and then I have a script that I'm reading right now for a horror film, and I'm meeting for a couple of television shows that I just had yesterday, and pretty much was offered one of them. ↗

— Trishelle Cannatella

#couple #film #had #horror #horror film

One of the best things that ever happened to me was Rocky Horror being a total flop in New York as a play. I mean, it was a disaster, and it was the night of the long knives as far as the critics were concerned. ↗

— Tim Curry

#being #best #concerned #critics #disaster

If you just did a horror tone throughout an entire movie you almost, as an audience, can get a little bit used to it. But if you're laughing one minute and, you know, somebody's doing something quite horrific the next minute, it's a little more shocking. ↗

— Warwick Davis

#audience #bit #did #doing #entire

Few of us will forget the wail of mingled grief, rage and horror which rose from the camp when the Indians returned to it and recognized their slaughtered warriors, women, and children. ↗

— John Gibbon

#children #few #forget #grief #horror

I went see the horror thriller, Hannibal. I am a massive fan of Anthony Hopkins. He is superb in the film. ↗

— David Ginola

#anthony #anthony hopkins #fan #film #hannibal