The Big Book of the Masters of Horror Quotes

“The only thing worse than drink is the devil,” I remarked.
“Precisely. That’s where he is going. He goes there often.”
― E.F. Benson, The Big Book of the Masters of Horror: 120+ authors and 1000+ stories

“Ah, it was worth ten years of a man’s life to be dead then! Everything was pleasant. I was in a good neighborhood, for all the dead people that lived near me belonged to the best families in the city.”
― Cynthia Asquith, The Big Book of the Masters of Horror: 120+ authors and 1000+ stories

“Supposing you asked me, on oath, whether I believed in witches, I should say ‘No.’ But if you asked me again, on oath, whether I suspected I believed in them, I should, I think, say ‘Yes.”
― E.F. Benson, The Big Book of the Masters of Horror: 120+ authors and 1000+ stories

“She was lovely, and she drove the hearts and the purses of men as a breath drives a thin sheet of flame.”
― Cynthia Asquith, The Big Book of the Masters of Horror: 120+ authors and 1000+ stories

“I shall leave this farmhouse very soon. The people are all right, but they are people, and therefore insufferable.”
― Cynthia Asquith, The Big Book of the Masters of Horror: 120+ authors and 1000+ stories

“Whatever was found new in Lazarus’ face and gestures was thought to be some trace of a grave illness and of the shocks recently experienced. Evidently, the destruction wrought by death on the corpse was only arrested by the miraculous power, but its effects were still apparent; and what death had succeeded in doing with Lazarus’ face and body, was like an artist’s unfinished sketch seen under thin glass.”
― Cynthia Asquith, The Big Book of the Masters of Horror: 120+ authors and 1000+ stories

“I sometimes find myself looking at a young child with little short of awe, sir, knowing that within its mind is a scene of peace and paradise of which we older folk have no notion, and which will fade away out of it, as life wears on, like the mere tabernacling of a dream.”
― Cynthia Asquith, The Big Book of the Masters of Horror: 120+ authors and 1000+ stories

“Religion in life is either an amusement and a soporific or a sham and a swindle.”
― Lady Cynthia Asquith, The Big Book of the Masters of Horror: 120+ authors and 1000+ stories