Ransom Riggs Quotes

Every snapshot collector has obsessions. Some only collect photos of cars. Others like World War II, or babies, or old-timey girls in old-timey swimsuits. I happen to collect the weird stuff: photos that make the hair on the back of your neck stand up a little. The uncanny.

I like haunted things.

Ghost stories always creep me out and weird me out. Those are always interesting to watch.

'Ravenswood' is horror. It's not slasher, but it's psychological and spiritual horror.

I was a spooky kid; that was just my nature.

People had kind of a spooky feeling about ventriloquists after 'The Twilight Zone.'

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

I love to be scared. Not, 'Hey, I think I smell smoke...' scared, but creepy, paranoid, what's-that-out-there-in-the-dark, ghost story scared. It's no surprise that I was the girl who got invited to the slumber parties because I could be counted on to tell a tale to scare the bejesus out of you.

I tend toward the unnatural, sometimes with supernatural undertones or such.

Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.

Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or 'outsideness' without laying stress on the emotion of fear.

Creepy is better than just plain scary because you can't look away from creepy - you want to know the truth!

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

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

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.

You kind of invite a little spooky, creepy vibe into your whole experience of making a movie.

I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it.

Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.

Monsters don't scare me at all; I think creepy is scarier than gore. I tend to read more thrillers and mysteries than horror, though. I like a good whodunnit. If I want scary, I tend to reach for a movie. I think it's a great medium for horror.

Even though I don't necessarily believe in everything that's supernatural, I like being scared and I like things that are suspenseful.

I don't know that I believe in the supernatural, but I do believe in miracles, and our time together was filled with the events of magical unlikelihood.

I always wanted to live in a haunted house.

I've wanted to write a ghost story for years, and my main aim was to write the most frightening ghost story that I could think of.

I tried to make every bit of it as creepy as I could. And I had the same response you do. I feel the same way. The hospital scenes, that procedure was so real.

It's said that All Hallows' Eve is one of the nights when the veil between the worlds is thin - and whether you believe in such things or not, those roaming spirits probably believe in you, or at least acknowledge your existence, considering that it used to be their own. Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.