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“Can you imagine life without the horror genre? There would be no monsters. Only a**holes.”
― Michael A. Arnzen

“There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win.”
― George R. R. Martin

“So, in your own words, what did this monster take from you?’ Ruth thought for a moment. ‘Light.”
― Angela Marsons, Evil Games

“The realest and scariest monsters are internal demons, the specters of regret and guilt and lack of fulfillment, awareness of the entropic end of love, or the first shivers occasioned by the realization of our own ageing, and the eventual inevitability of death.”
― Michael Marshall Smith, Everything You Need

“Of the things that are man’s achievements, the greatest is suffering.”
― Douglas Clegg, The Nightmare Chronicles: Thirteen Tales of Horror and Suspense

“But writing is a wonderful and terrible thing. It opens deep wells of memory that were previously capped.”
― Stephen King, Revival

“At one point, all authors are unknown until the day they are not.”
― J.D. Barker, Forsaken

“Thirty thousand people died. Every single one of them had a name.”
― John Joseph Adams, Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse

“In real life, the monsters are the ones abducting and killing children or flying hijacked airplanes into skyscrapers or looting our treasury and sending our kids off to fight a bullshit war just so they can line their own pockets and the pockets of their corporate buddies or eradicating our Bill of Rights in the name of national security. Those are the real monsters.”
― Brian Keene, The Girl on the Glider

“If you were a character in one of my books, I could cut you without changing the plot in the slightest.”
― Iain Rob Wright, The Picture Frame

“People aren’t special. They never were. We’re the biggest mistake in the universe.”
― Joe Hart, Cruel World

“Yes, boys and girls, today’s near-death experience was brought to you by the number eight and the letters WTF!”
― Steve Vernon, Kelpie Dreams

“Wouldn’t you agree that we are all ‘created’ and all of our lives are . . . ‘experiments’ to some degree?”
― James Morris, What Lies Within

“These are the things you notice the day you die.”
― Stacey Cochran, Eddie & Sunny

“Had they worn suits, you might have mistaken them for Mormon missionaries.”
― P.J. Manney, (R)evolution

“I kept looking around, thinking someone was watching us. Every breath we took. Every move we made.”
― Richard Brown, Dead Highways: Origins

“It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth’s dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone;”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Complete Collection

“He hadn’t learned much in chemistry, but he knew this: he was a particle and others around him reacted.”
― James Morris, What Lies Within

“What’s a little nightmare among friends?”
― Rigel Carson, G-1

“It is the aimless who find the wrong roads, and drive down them, simply because they have nowhere else to go.”
― Michael Marshall Smith, Everything You Need

“I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half-empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.”  - Janeane Garofalo”
― Pete Kahle, The Specimen: A Novel of Horror

“Lies, good ones at least, are smooth and well thought out. It’s the truth that’s sloppy.”
― Emily Bleeker, Wreckage

“He spoke with the patience of a true believer. Or a lunatic. Maybe there’s really no difference.”
― Stephen King, Revival

“The dinosaurs never discovered what caused their extinction, either.”
― John Joseph Adams, Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse

“To do the wrong thing, she has decided, is better than to do nothing.”
― John Joseph Adams, Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse

“The man on the porch seemed to have brought his own clouds.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Stage Whispers: The Collected Timmy Quinn Stories

“Cars get girl names. Guns get guy names. What do knives get?”
― Guillermo del Toro, The Fall

“We were just so busy then. Very busy. I wish I could remember. But I can't. What we were so busy with.”
― John Joseph Adams, Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse

“The gods were not, in fact, smiling upon me. I at least hoped they weren't laughing at me.”
― Jeff Strand, Pressure

“The living have enough to worry about these days without the dead coming back to complicate things.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, The Turtle Boy