Mark Gatiss Quotes

I've been reading horror since I was five years old.

I have always loved reading a little creep-factor and a lot of suspense.

Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters.

Horror isn't only about ghosts or monsters. For example, paranormal romance seems the antithesis of horror. Once you have a sexy, fun vampire who is sweet, and you have a happy ending, it's not horror.

To me a great sci-fi movie has elements of horror and suspense.

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

I like the influence of the macabre, but I don't believe in ghosts.

I love really, really deep, dark-as-Russia storylines. I love supernatural aspects. I grew up with ghost stories.

I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.

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.

I don't write that much horror. People tell me my books are scary, but they're not really; I don't go there.

The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.

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

People who have passion for horror stories, their appreciation/my appreciation is looking at it as opera.

Horror fans need horror, okay? They don't need little worms squirming around going down your throat. To them, that's not horror.

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 is fascinating because it's so seasonal and it's like you've got these periods where slasher movies are in and it's like everyone loves them. Next thing you know zombies are in. Then vampires are acceptable.

I don't believe in voodoo.

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

Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.

Horror will always be there, it always comes back, it's a familiar genre that some people, not everyone - it's sort of the cinema anchovies. You either like it or you don't.

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

The stuff I write with Joe Lo Truglio tends to lean towards horror-comedy and horror.

So, I outlined a horror novel and started writing.

Well, don't tell Steve Niles but I just don't think horror works in comics.