Don’t get all gothic and emo on me now. – Tory

They thought he was scared all the time because he was a coward. The truth was, only he could see the world clearly enough to know how truly scary it was.

It’s scary, but I won’t let fear stop me.

Forget the American dream…whats your dream? The thing that keeps you up at night…the thing that makes you happy…the thing that keeps your spirit going. Do that thing. Don’t label it a hobby or what...

I think one who thrives on death may be defeated by life.Elswyth, from A Precarious Journey Into Magic

So what, ghosts can’t hurt you. That’s what I thought then.

You’ll never see us coming.

A creature–a frightfully, awful creature–was mere feet from her. Its eyes were enormous, the size of goose eggs and milky white. Its gray, slippery skin was stretched taut upon its face. Its mouth was wide...

People Die…Beauty Fades…Love Changes…And You Will Always Be Alone

This is my home, Cape Breton is my home, and I don’t know if I really want to leave it as much as I might think and I’m sort of scared to leave it all...

I don’t have a sidekick – no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I’m lonely. It’s scary.

If you focus on the humanity of your stories, your characters, then the horror will be stronger, scarier. Without the humanity, the horror becomes nothing more than a tawdry parlor trick. All flash and no...

I’m not a big fan of Halloween. Except for the dressing up part. I love picking out a costume. – Tory

Ghosts are the only ones who never have to feel scared. Because the worst thing in the world has already happened to them.

Here is a list of terrible things,The jaws of sharks, a vultures wingsThe rabid bite of the dogs of war,The voice of one who went before,But most of all the mirror’s gaze,Which counts us out...

His body walks out onto the darkened stage , and a roar goes up from the crowd. He stands in front of the mic, and he can feel his face twist in a sneer-the Elvis...

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

We make, see, and love films, not digitals. To convert all of our movies, home videos, theaters, photographs and television to digital would be like telling a painter to throw away his brushes and canvas...

Since September 11, 2001, the real world has become too scary for a lot of people to be with – all the time.

I don’t write that much horror. People tell me my books are scary, but they’re not really; I don’t go there.

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

There was a scary two years where it was madness because I was really in trouble with the taxman.

A democracy of mean and ignorant people is just as scary as any other horrible form of government.

Feathers!” spluttered Sargatanas. “Feathers are for the birds, my boy. Flaking, peeling, scale-ridden wings, now that’s what real beings wear. I’ll tell you a secret.” He said, and drew me closer. “The eternal pain at...

I just love scary movies. I love the thrill.

She harbored the childhood presumption that the truly scary things could only find her in the night.

Imagine a perfect world

I saw something scary. It was a boy, asking me what I’m doing naked in his father’s fridge. Dinner party’s over.

How scary and sudden the shift from Living to Dead.

People never like pollution, it has become very wrong to like pollution at all. But just like there are good and bad things about people, there are good and bad things about pollution. If people...

AIDS is such a scary thing and it’s also the kind of thing that you think won’t happen to you. It can happen to you and it’s deadly serious.

Knives are sharp, but are equally confusing.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

Fear and hopelessness washed over her. She was looking her own mortality in the face, and it was a horrifying thing to do.

Stare at the dark too long and you will eventually see what isn’t there.

Oh, my sweet summer child,” Old Nan said quietly, “what do you know of fear?Fear is for the winter, my little lord, when the snows fall a hundred feetdeep and the ice wind comes howling...

Mom used to tell us stories of these bogeymen when we were kids, and Lizzy would crawl into my bed so she could fall asleep. Stories of the monsters who forced us underground, and when...

I love making scary faces, that’s just how I grew up.

The sleepless hum of the city was abidingly in his ears, and the lamps that dotted the misty pavements stared at him blinkingly all along the route. The tall black buildings rose up grimly into...

People scare me more than anything, for I know too well the savagery of which humankind is capable.

An oppressive odor of decay now mingled with the stench of mold and seemed to clutch at the very breath in their lungs.

It’s not a good idea.

The idea of a blind date scares me. But a deaf date would be great.

I find celebrity really scary.

A prickle of awareness made the hairs at the back of his neck stand. A deep chill sank into his flesh to settle around his heart, squeezing it. Skeletal fingers scraped along his spine and...

As long as they talk about you, you’re not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continue. A legend doesn’t die, just because the man dies.

And we’ve read scary books and watched scary movies and TV shows together. He’s met monsters, ghouls, and demons on the page and on the screen. There’s nothing like watching Anaconda with your best friend...

Oh, but you must travel through those woods again and again… said a shadow at the window… and you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time…But the wolf… the wolf only needs enough...

In the jumbled, fragmented memories I carry from my childhood there are probably nearly as many dreams as images from waking life. I thought of one which might have been my earliest remembered nightmare. I...

My body is no longer mine. My soul dormant. I am once again, possessed.