Guillermo del Toro Quotes

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.

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

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 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.

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

In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulu waits dreaming

Despite the fact that he's been dead for over seventy years and his prose considered purple and overwrought by many, H.P. Lovecraft's work is still widely read and has remained influential for generations.

With books like 'AD: After Death' and 'Wytches,' a lot of those things are inspired by reading things that terrify me.

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

It is in dreams that I have known the real clutch of stark, hideous, maddening, paralysing fear. My infant nightmares were classics, & in them there is not an abyss of agonising cosmic horror that I have not explored. I don't have such dreams now - but the memory of them will never leave me. It is undoubtedly from them that the darkest & most gruesome side of my fictional imagination is derived.

Nyarlathotep . . . the crawling chaos . . . I am the last . . . I will tell the audient void. . . .

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

I don't like the new trends in horror. All this torture stuff seems really mean-spirited. People have forgotten how to laugh, and I don't see anybody who's using it as allegory.

Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books, I always knew I was going to write a horror novel.

I love the role of Ripley.

The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law - an imaginative escape from palling reality - hence, phenomena rather than persons are the logical 'heroes.'

'Zone One' comes out of me trying to work through some of my ideas about why, for me personally, zombies are scary.

It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.

John Bellairs's young adult mysteries were great - and super creepy.

If you actually read the 'New Gods' tetralogy, this epic without an ending, it's like dipping your head into madness. You feel a little bit like the Joker for a little while. And I mean that in the best way possible.

Part of what horror is, is taking risks and going somewhere that people think you're not supposed to be able to go, in the name of expressing real-life fears.

If something comes along that is totally outside of horror, fine, but I find there's an immense amount of freedom within the genre.

It's easy for me to write a horror movie about real stuff because my mind is always going there anyway.

I will never forget seeing Alien when it came out in 1979. I'm not that big a fan of horror, but I remember the slow build, the claustrophobic feeling on the spacecraft, this tremendous sense of impending doom.