#horror

Fantastic literature has been especially prominent in times of unrest, when the older values have been overthrown to make way for the new; it has often accompanied or predicted change, and served to shake up rational Complacency, challenging reason and reminding man of his darker nature. Its popularity has had its ups and downs, and it has always been the preserve of a small literary minority. As a natural challenger of classical values, it is rarely part of a culture's literary mainstream, expressing the spirit of the age; but it is an important dissenting voice, a reminder of the vast mysteries of existence, sometimes truly metaphysical in scope, but more often merely riddling. ↗

— Franz Rottensteiner

#fantastique #fantasy #genre #horror #literature

Death was a living creature. Death was a man tormented by his past. Death was once a human. ↗

— S.K.N. Hammerstone

#angel-of-death #angels-and-demons #horror #death

Depression was like wearing tinted glasses and looking through them changed one's perception dramatically. A fancy new house could be construed as a bunch of boards nailed together. ↗

— A.J. Gallant

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Dorothea: "What the fuck are you?" Nix: "A man who wanted to be a God...then changed his mind. ↗

— Clive Barker

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The loneliest place to spend eternity is your own life after you can't change it anymore." --Lucifer from Kevin ↗

— Bruce Jenvey

#paranormal-fiction #change

Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me! ↗

— Stephen King

#death #horror #it #kill #king

Do you know what it’s like to kill a man? You just pushed a knife into living, moving skin and you realize you pierced a heart that beats against your sharp knife. -Lucas Tyrel ↗

— L'Poni Baldwin

#horror #military #death

I have no use for your body, for within its youth lies a rotten wench already deceased. ↗

— Keisha Keenleyside

#death #fantasy #horror #my-next-novel-quote-one #sex

Death is one lover who cannot be spurned. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

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If we knew what we are, we should do as Sir Arthur Jermyn did; and Arthur Jermyn soaked himself in oil and set first to his clothing one night. ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#horror #humanity #suicide #death