H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.

I just know I'm too much of a wuss for Stephen King's books. I'm way too chicken to read horror.

The grotesque has never really affected or frightened me. I guess it's real-life stuff that frightens me much more.

Nothing's scarier than wrestling The Boogeyman.

I'm definitely not for any haunted houses. They're all scary to me.

Horror is a totally different animal. It's intense. You can do drama or comedies, but in horror, you really have to trick yourself into believing a lot of unbelievable phenomena.

The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness.

Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.

What scares me is what scares you. We're all afraid of the same things. That's why horror is such a powerful genre. All you have to do is ask yourself what frightens you and you'll know what frightens me.

Real-life things, like spiders and snakes, that doesn't scare me, but if it's a monster or a ghost or an alien, that will always scare me.

I loved ghost stories. I love horror stories. I love all of that stuff, but I really yearn for something to actually frighten me. It's more of a yearning for that than something that has to necessarily be cerebral or sophisticated. Good storytelling and something that actually frightens you.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

I try to stay far away from anything creepy and supernatural. I'd rather not think about it.

I like the paranormal side a lot; that's my favorite kind of horror movie because it plays on your fear of the dark and makes you go home, and you can't sleep at night.

Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares.

I don't like to get scared - it's not one of the emotions I enjoy. So I have to assume that if there are scary things in my books, they aren't very scary.

I think if you looked at the kind of ebb and flow of supernatural fiction and horror fiction, it does seem to be more popular in times when we're hammered over the head daily with threats from all angles, very real threats.

Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is.

I've always had this in a kind of worst-case dark imagination. I want to know what the dark form in the window is. I want to know what the noise under the staircase is.

The horror of it is, every goddamn thing you look at seems pretty scary to me.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

Horror films are very effective to me; they have an impact on me. I think that real life things scare me a lot more.

Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.

Horror of any kind is dependent on a certain amount of insecurity and paranoia from the audience. And it feeds on that and works on that.

True horror, I think, deals with dread and menace and gets under your skin.