Dark Fiction Quotes

I've been a big fan of Joe Hill ever since his first novel, 'Heart-Shaped Box.'

I would like to believe that most people, regardless of gender, are good and kind. The good men in my stories are the rule. It's the bad men that are the exception and because I tend toward the dark in my fiction, you see more of the exception than the rule.

I've always really liked murder mysteries and thrillers, and great to be able to be actually part of one.

I read H.P. Lovecraft. I also like Sword and Sorcery stuff, Arthurian legend.

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

The thing is, horror is a big part of 'Sherlock Holmes.' Doyle also wrote a lot of great horror stories, so there's a lot more horror in 'Holmes' that people possibly think of. There's a lot of curses and mysticism and real scares.

I love all that kind of gothic Bram Stoker kind of thing. I love to get lost in that kind of escapism.

I always wanted to write psychological thrillers.

I've been reading Peter Straub since I was a teenager, and his work is hardwired into my brain. A Dark Matter contains echoes of all that has been great about Straub's previous work and builds upon it. This Rashomon-like tale is as spooky and frightening as anything he has written, but it's also an intense and moving celebration of love. Out of the darkness comes, ultimately, a surprising and haunting sense of joy.

I've always loved what I'd term 'dark fiction' writers, everyone from J. G. Ballard to Mervyn Peake and Philip Pullman. I'm not sure it's a genre, but it's what I like best.

Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.

I've been a fan of vampire fiction since way, way back - I loved Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, Robert McCammon, Shirley Jackson, lots of great horror and paranormal fiction.

With gritty action and realistic science, Peter Watts brings to life a dark and vivid world.

Women who write thrillers are called 'dark.' Male writers are called 'powerful.'

Edgar Allen Poe really started me when I was 8. I fell in love with everything of his.

With American Morons, Glen Hirshberg confidently shoulders his way through the generational pack to claim his rightful place on the summit. These stories are smart, challenging, ripe with feeling, expansive in every way: Horror as it should be writ, and as only the best and most expressive can write it.

Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.

My first book was called 'Buried Dreams,' about a serial-killer, which was probably about ten years ahead of the serial-killer curve. It was a national bestseller, but it was three years of living in the sewer of this guy's mind.

I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.

I'm interested in the Gothic novel because it's very much a woman's form. Why is there such a wide readership for books that essentially say, 'Your husband is trying to kill you'?

The book is really, really dark, to the point where some people that I've talked to have said that it could be a series. And I'm like, Where? VH1? It's a little hard for VH1.

In college, I discovered the Joyce Carol Oates short story 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' which is definitely one of the most incredibly unnerving, frightening short stories ever written.

For me, writing something in the spirit of Halloween is like Mother Teresa writing on charity and sacrifice. It's just second nature to me.

Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat.

In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.