Ellen Datlow Quotes

I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American writer of weird fiction, he was at the top of the class.

I'm not a huge Lovecraft fan as far as that goes; I think there are some stories of his that are really quite wonderful, but for the most part, I have great difficulties with his prose - and the more you know about the man, the harder it is to separate him from the work in many ways.

I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.

I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe.

I'm a science fiction author at heart, and what I like about the Cthulhu Mythos setting is that, at its core, it is horror science fiction. I can take ideas from modern theoretical science, manipulate them in truly bizarre and weird ways, and remain true to the Cthulhu Mythos vision.

'Dark Gods,' T. E. D. Klein's book of four novellas, felt like a godsend - even if it came from a deformed god, one that lurked beneath our sidewalks.

Now, after 18 years, not a sign of Lovecraft in my work.

I grew up on all sorts of horror - Hammer Horror and Vincent Price's 'Theatre Of Blood.' I loved the hidden, scary layers, but there wasn't that much around for youngsters in terms of horror books. I can remember reading Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot' and 'Cujo,' but I thought there should be more for teenaged horror fans.

I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.

I tend to look way back for my inspiration: H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe.

It'll die down like every other genre, but horror has always been one of the four or five main genres that will never go away.

Lovecraft opened the way for me, as he had done for others before me

I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems of death.

I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's.

Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.

As a kid, I liked the 'Halloween' movies and 'Nightmare On Elm Street' and all that kind of stuff. But as an adult, I really don't watch much horror, to be honest.

I wanted to write a story set in the Lovecraftian universe that didn't gloss over the uglier implications of his worldview.

I'm not a great one for classic horror or cheap thrills.

I read H.P. Lovecraft. I also like Sword and Sorcery stuff, Arthurian legend.

I'm a fan of short horror fiction... in fact, the most memorable horror I've read is of the short variety... but I have a hard time pulling it off myself.

My mom didn't write, but she loved to read. She liked books 'that made you a little nervous.' Stephen King, Dean Koontz and Peter Straub were the three wise men of our family bookshelf.

'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.

I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.

I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.

When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.