Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.

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

There often is a dark secret in books... There is often a gathering sense of dread; there's a gap sometimes in the text from which all kinds of monsters can emerge.

Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.

I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.

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.

The fear that you come to a show called 'American Horror Story' with is yours. That being said, I'm glad people are afraid, and I hope that I'm contributing to their fear. I'm really not afraid of my own darkness anymore. I'm not afraid of what I'm capable of.

It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.

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.

My adult life is filled with the things horror movies are made of.

Dreams surround our desires with ugliness and dread.

...it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches.

I trembled, and my heart failed within me; when, on looking up, I saw, by the light of the moon, the daemon at the casement.

Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.

Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.

Horror serves a cathartic role in human society, all throughout the world. It is a way of confronting the darkness, both within and without.

Frightening things happen in solitude.

We all are scared of bad things… So when you are watching a film, you see your fears on the screen.

I don't think I'm angry. I'm horrified - powered by horror.

Gore, like blood and guts and stuff, I am fine. Suspense, I get super sensitive. I can't handle it.

Personally, I have nightmares about the unstoppable monster.

God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!

There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.

Making night hideous.