Why I Love Horror Quotes

“Why do I love horror? Because it’s the f’ing best. There. Done. Print that.”
― Becky Spratford, Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature

“I love horror because it is the genre uniquely equipped to explore the vastness of human nature.”
― Becky Spratford, Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature

“I think it’s because we all know that art not only can change you”
― Becky Spratford, Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature

“Of all the genres and modes of story out there”
― Becky Spratford, Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature

“But you can’t have those good moments without a long”
― Becky Spratford, Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature

“Because of the community. I challenge anyone out there to find a more supportive group of people than horror fans. We all love our chosen genre enough that just moving among other people with that same wonderful infection”
― Becky Spratford, Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature

“Because when you get tired of a character”
― Becky Spratford, Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature

“Horror is forever balancing on that line of “too much.” And that’s what makes it so fun. Like”
― Becky Spratford, Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature

“Because the stakes are always”
― Becky Spratford, Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature

“The ’80s were our country’s preteen phase”
― Becky Spratford, Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature

“If one fears pain”
― Becky Spratford, Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature

“For every time I stayed quiet when I wanted to speak up”
― Becky Spratford, Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature

“For so long”
― Becky Spratford, Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature

“My suspension of disbelief is faulty—my pause button”
― Becky Spratford, Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature

“And as we try to figure out what to do and how to be”
― Becky Spratford, Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature

“We’re supposed to be youthful and beautiful”
― Becky Spratford, Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature

“I don’t know what it’s like to feel safe inside my skin. I am hyperaware of my appearance at all times. I am constantly at odds with my body”
― Becky Spratford, Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature

“I wish someone had told me then that it doesn’t matter what you look like. What you wear. What you do or don’t do. What you eat”
― Becky Spratford, Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature

“My body needed to look just so to be acceptable”
― Becky Spratford, Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature

“No spaghetti straps. Skirts must be at least fingertip length. Nothing low-cut because it’s distracting to our classmates”
― Becky Spratford, Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature

“How much bland”
― Becky Spratford, Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature

“The fear doesn’t end. It never goes away. It simply evolves. Mutates. Permutates. What horrors do I have to face today? What am I afraid of now?”
― Becky Spratford, Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature

“From The Turn of the Screw to The Blair Witch Project”
― Becky Spratford, Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature

“My dad loved the idea of performing emergency surgery. When we were on an airplane and the captain asked if there were any doctors on board”
― Becky Spratford, Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature

“And yeah”
― Becky Spratford, Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature

“a Tremblay novel always has an ending that leaves the nature of the horror completely open-ended. He challenges readers to interpret the story as having either a completely rational or a supernatural explanation. The support for both opinions is there”
― Becky Spratford, Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature

“So”
― Becky Spratford, Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature

“Some say birds of a feather spot one another the way vampires or drug addicts do,”
― Becky Spratford, Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature

“In many Black families—and no doubt in many families period—horror served as a balm to soothe the trauma of being outsiders in our own nation.”
― Becky Spratford, Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature

“Yeah”
― Becky Spratford, Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature