Stephen King Quotes

Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current.

Horror is edgier. Dark fantasy feels mushier to me. Finding the difference - it's an instinct. And they overlap a lot.

Awful Night! Ancestral mystery of mysteries.

Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.

Dolls, perhaps more than any other object, demonstrate just how thin the line between love and fear, comfort and horror, can be. They are objects of love and sources of reassurance for children, coveted prizes for collectors, sources of terror and horror in numerous movies, television shows, books, and stories.

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

Ironically, I wouldn't say I'm a massive horror fan. I love thrillers.

Though they don't always have to be set in fog, weather is incredibly important in ghost stories. As is suspense: you've got to turn the screw very, very slowly.

I didn't like books where people played on a sports team and won a bunch of games, or went to summer camp and had a wonderful time. I really liked a book where a witch might cut a child's head off or a pack of angry dogs might burst through a door and terrorize a family.

Everything scares me. I'm very easily frightened. But the thing that scares me most is zombies. I really, really don't like zombies.

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

It was obvious what kind of game they were playing on the set of Amityville.

I'm scared of clowns.

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.

For 'Fright Night,' we really want to convey the fun attitude of the movie and show the intensity of Colin Farrell as a predator. He's not a brooding vampire - he's dark and dangerous.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

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.

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.

The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.

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

I want to do horror and action, and I'm only being slightly facetious.

I like to use horror as allegory.

For me, I would say that horror is my absolute favorite form of entertainment.