#horro

It was so close to October that Halloween was knocking at his heart. ↗

— Barry Eysman

#gothic #horror #love #november-solemn #love

Lover," she whispers, and closes her eyes. It falls upon her. Love is like dying. ↗

— Stephen King

#horror #love #lovers #love

When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appearance; and these bushes, crowding huddled about us, assumed for me in the darkness a bizarre grotesquerie of appearance that lent to them somehow the aspect of purposeful and living creatures. Their very ordinariness, I felt, masked what was malignant and hostile to us. ↗

— Algernon Blackwood

#imagination #imagination

No one, none of us have rights. There is no destiny. We have responsibilities to ourselves and each other. We have responsibilities and the choice whether or not we live up to those responsibilities. ↗

— Brian Fatah Steele

#mythology #novellas #post-mythic #urban-fantasy #urban-fantasy

Bodies lay in the sun. Bodies stood in the sun. ↗

— N.J. Hallard

#creepy #horror #scary #zombies #apocalypse

Ms. Fang is the nicest, sweetest teacher at Scary School. She only ate twelve kids last year. ↗

— Derek The Ghost

#funny #horror #humor #scary #school

I’m the sexiest of them all! - Carol ↗

— Matthew Leeth

#funny #horror #matthew-leeth #me #she-was-different

Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#horror #trivia #humor

But sometimes, in tight corners, when your back is against the wall and the world is against you, you have to fight back in unexpected ways. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

#young-adult #young-adult-fiction #young-adult-horror #young-adult-fiction

What is a monster? Something that grows hair all over and howls? Could be. But the real monster is within, and when it comes out, it’s as fugly as you see it, or as it lets you see it. ↗

— John Vamvas Olga Montes

#horror #thriller #young-adult-fiction #thriller