Adelbert von Chamisso Quotes

This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate.

I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent.

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.

I can scare myself like a pro.

Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.

I shudder at the image they would piece together.

People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.

I don't like to get scared - it's not one of the emotions I enjoy. So I have to assume that if there are scary things in my books, they aren't very scary.

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.

I pretend something scary is in front of me.

I think if you looked at the kind of ebb and flow of supernatural fiction and horror fiction, it does seem to be more popular in times when we're hammered over the head daily with threats from all angles, very real threats.

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 scariest part to any story is the sliver of truth you hide in the horror. Sometimes its not about the axe wielding murder, but the fact that he's lurking somewhere in your basement. Sure, you keep telling yourself that you'll replace the burnt out light every week.

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.

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

The horror of it is, every goddamn thing you look at seems pretty scary to 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.

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.

Fear connotes something that interferes with what you're doing.

Horror of any kind is dependent on a certain amount of insecurity and paranoia from the audience. And it feeds on that and works on that.

True horror, I think, deals with dread and menace and gets under your skin.

We human beings get nervous if we don't know what's going on. It's the rule for creating scary stories: the unknown is always more frightening than the known.

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

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