#horror

It was like some mad scientist threw a bunch of DNA into a blender and this is what came out. What the heck could it be? Was it some kind of alien? A scientific experiment gone horribly wrong? Did we have a Dr. Frankenstein living in Billings? Seriously, the creature looked like a resurrected Wookiee made from spare parts. ↗

— Kendra C. Highley

#monsters #ya-action #experience

But the recurrent ambiguity of the American tale of the supernatural reveals both a fascination with the possibility of numinous experience and a perplexity about whether there was, in fact, anything numinous to be experienced. Writers often delighted in leading readers into, but not out of, the haunted dusk of the borderland. ↗

— Howard Kerr

#fantasy #horror #numinous #supernatural #experience

Lifes a bitch and then you keep on fucking living." Gonko The Clown The Pilo Family Circus ↗

— Will Elliott

#family

We're all hunters in my family, you know. Deer, ducks…damsels. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#disturbing #horror #scary #family

When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it. ↗

— Lewis B. Smedes

#evil #excuse #face #forgive #full

I'm not a human anymore ↗

— Darren Shan

#funny

For an instant Harry imagined... Just for an instant, before his imagination blew a fuse and called an emergency shut down and told him never to imagine that again. ↗

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

#imagination #imagination

Imagine all human beings swept off the face of the earth, excepting one man. Imagine this man in some vast city, New York or London. Imagine him on the third or fourth day of his solitude sitting in a house and hearing a ring at the door-bell! ↗

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#imagination

If the town were a black hole, I was the helpless star being sucked into oblivion. It was an oblivion I craved. ↗

— J.D. Stroube

#crave #horror #inspiration #oblivion #paranormal

It is the sheer ugliness and banality of everyday life which turns my blood to ice and makes me cringe in terror. ↗

— Jean Lorrain

#horror #life #reality #terror #ugly