Christopher Golden Quotes

Vampires were an excellent springboard. I still love them; they fascinate me.

... We're werewolves. We don't get to judge 'crazy.

They're [zombies] us, you can also have the wrestler zombie, the clown zombie, the Jay Leno zombie and the nun zombie. I've never seen the clown werewolf or vampire. But because zombies are us, at the lowest possible level, they're a lot more versatile for storytelling.

On the tawny sands and shelves trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.

I'm a vampire, idiot. I don't have x-ray vision." "Some supernatural monster you are, remind me to trade you in for a werewolf, bro. Probably be more useful right now.

There are plenty of characters I'd love to write. Swamp Thing, Etrigan the Demon, Man-Thing, Howard the Duck, Dr. Strange, Dr. Druid, Ghost Rider, the Micronauts, the Shogun Warriors... the list goes on and on.

I've always been fascinated by mythology or, in modern parlance, by X-Men or vampires.

I like my monsters to be monsters.

I have no intention of making vampires cool. Absolutely not. They're not cool.

I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.

Unfortunately, zombies aren’t very flammable, and it went out instantly.

Alexia had spent long hours wondering over that mustache. Werewolves did not grow hair, as they did not age. Where had it come from? Had he always had it? For how many centuries had his poor abused upper lip labored under the burden of such vegetation?

Name the different kinds of people,’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’ Bod thought for a moment. ‘The living,’ he said. ‘Er. The dead.’ He stopped. Then, ‘... Cats?’ he offered, uncertainly.

I'm a coyote shapeshifter playing in a world of werewolves and vampires---outmatched is n understatement.

Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, and sail 'round the high-pooped galleys... Dragons will wander about the waste places, and the phoenix will soar from her nest of fire into the air. We shall lay our hands upon the basilisk, and see the jewel in the toad's head. Champing his gilded oats, the Hippogriff will stand in our stalls, and over our heads will float the Blue Bird singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never happen, of things that are not and that should be.

Two devils rose from the water, and flew off through the air, crying, 'Oh, oh, oh!' and turning one over another, in sportive mockery.

Holly: Seriously, you don't like unicorns? What kind person doesn't like unicorns? Justine: What kind of a person doesn't like zombies? What have zombies ever done to you? Holly: Zombies shamble. I disapprove of shambling. And they have bits that fall off. You never see a unicorn behaving that way. Justine: I shamble. Bits fall off me all the time: hair, skin cells. Are you saying you disapprove of me?

Vampires. They wrote the book on possessive.

Just because you saw a vampire doesn't mean that a snowman or a Loch Ness Monster also exists.

This is the story of a boy who used to be a wolf, and a girl who became one

Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable.

I expected Dracula to come jumping out any second. If he did I'd have held up a cross, cause he's allergic to bullshit.

Who ya gonna call?" "Ghostbusters!" "That phrase is ruined forever.

I remember her telling me once that rabbits were the gnomes in attendance to the Fairy Queen and that the stars were God's daisy chain. Perfect rot, of course.

Vampires have risen from the dead, the grave, and the crypt, but have never managed it from the cat.