Compassion for human hurt, a humble sense of our impermanence, an absolute valuation of justice—all of our so-called virtues only trouble us and serve to bolster, not assuage, horror. In addition, these qualities are our...

He came through the door howling, an axe arched high over his head. His eyes danced in madness, stuck fast on the two of them kissing, caught in their embrace and unaware of him. For...

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...

When sleep came, I would dream bad dreams. Not the baby and the big man with a cigarette-lighter dream. Another dream. The castle dream. A little girl of about six who looks -like me, but...

I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.

River had never lost his cool, not since I’d know him. That was the thing about River. He was calm. Calm as a summer’s day. Calm as a gentle nap in the sun. Even when...

As soon as reality breaks, as soon as we’re separated from the phsical world, the cracks begin to appear in our minds. And through them seeps the madness that has always been there, flowing into...

If there’s one thing Robert had learned in three weeks at Lovecraft Middle School, it’s that nothing was impossible.

Eu vocifero labaredas e mais labaredas de feras famintas por horror.

A lover finds his mistress asleep on a mossy bank; he wishes to catch a glimpse of her fair face without waking her. He steals softly over the grass, careful to make no sound; he...

I have seen the dark universe yawningWhere the black planets roll without aim,Where they roll in their horror unheeded,Without knowledge, or lustre, or name.

Don’t think that what you say fleetingly to one man be harmless. Your fleeting words can travel so fast and so lightly that soon enough they will end up hitting someone so hard that they...

Paradis: «Sì, questa è la guerra», ripete con voce remota, distante. «Nient’altro che questo».Capisco benissimo il senso delle sue parole. «Più delle cariche che sembrano parate, più delle battaglie visibili dispiegate come stendardi, più ancora...

Il paese di Verulengo si estende come un serpente in provincia di Verona, lungo la strada provinciale 9a.”Incipit.

Keep driving,” said a soft voice in my ear. “She will not bite if you keep driving.”Fuck that. Fuck that idea like the fucking Captain of the Thai Fuck Team fucking at the fucking Tour...

Behind everyday reality, there is a deeper reality so cruel that it condemns to death those who crime is no greater than the pursuit of their own curiosity.(“Shem-El-Nessim: An Inspiration In Perfume”)

The introduction to horrors so young impressed on me just how helpless and vulnerable I was. Parents are supposed to empower their children to live without them but in my family, I wasn’t given permission...

The questions push me further into the space in between, the place where my madness lays waiting for me. I struggle with each question, determined to extract some sort of answer, an explanation for everything...

Time is going really faster than you think. That second just passed now, get up, pack the bag, get lost…

Wow, what a horror novel

William sees it all happen again. The pain is not in the event. The subjection to it and his powerless state each time is where his anguish lies. He is unable to influence the situation,...

What?’ He cried, darting at him a look of fury: ‘Dare you still implore the Eternal’s mercy? Would you feign penitence, and again act an Hypocrite’s part? Villain, resign your hopes of pardon. Thus I...

The other dark places,’ Evan whispered. Visions of tunnels of earth and stone, caves and streams entered his head. It was far beneath them. He knew it was real and it was down there, waiting.

If blood can produce money through rituals or the so-called human sacrifice, then it is the basis on which we live, so it is very essential to save and protect it from the fiendish eyes...

The world’s full of wonder, he said. Or at least horror that looks wondrous from afar.

He had no problem with flies or bugs or beetles, even creepy ones like earwigs and cockroaches…Six legs were fine, but eight were alien and unnatural.’The same number of legs as four fully-grown serial killers!

That thought probably has occurred to Socrates too.

When you have too much faith in something, it’s bound to hurt you. Too much faith in anything will suck you dry. In this way, all the world is a vampire.

What I learned in this tragedy was the eternal lesson of good people going bad.

His eyes were like two wafers of slate, grey and lifeless.

Paranoia. The more you think of an imaginary problem, the more you feel as though it’s real –

And maybe that is exactly what happened…he walked away and never woke up…

Keiichi-kun. I found you.

Eddie discovered one of his childhood’s great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

Never will you talk to me like that again.

Where do bad folks go when they die? No heaven awaits them, say to it goodbye

I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.

Birds chirped and hawked in the distance. A group of them, maybe vultures, circled the sky. Rae glanced at the blanket. Those damn birds could probably smell Marissa, and the second everyone left, they’d pounce...

Her eyes were of different colors, the left as brown as autumn, the right as gray as Atlantic wind. Both seemed alive with questions that would never be voiced, as if no words yet existed...

Sometimes you can lock the doors and close the blinds, but the monsters are still there inside your house, sleeping and breathing and just waiting to wake up and terrorize you all over again.

True vampires that want to build a strong family does not go around turning people just because they want to. But even the most sensible of vampire can be tempted by beauty. When you come...

No shifting in my car Blake,I don’t want slobber all over my seats.” Neesa

I like ‘Rocky Horror.’

It is not what we know that scares us, it is what we do not

Harley’s eyes widened in horror, and a low moan of fear escaped his mouth. The back alley was filled with a vision from Hell.

Those secrets residing in their hearts and minds held magnificent Energy. Humans were too inept to see it as anything but evil.

All things are true. God’s an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live.” – Peloquin

he night beyond the window was still, mordant white snow, punctuated only by the eerie dark of the trees, gumshoeing their way along the edge of the path outside. Their skeletal fingers clawed up at...

You told us this place was haunted. How haunted is it?”Paul cast a quick glance at the house. “I’m not sure. When they found the bodies twenty years ago, the place became off-limits. That was...

Supernatural Horror in Literature