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Kalel Coetzee

Kalel Coetzee

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He then bit her ear and stabbed her in her left thigh. Gabrielle screamed in pain as Cain spat out the bit of her ear he had bitten off. He laughed hysterically and licked her blood off the blade. Tears rolled down Gabrielle's cheeks as the blood flowed.

— Kalel Coetzee, As Shadows

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I feel like I’m underwater, weighed down, helpless.

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I didn't write them for money; I wrote them because it occurred to me to write them. I have a marketable obsession. There are madmen and madwomen in padded cells the world over who are not so lucky.

— Stephen King, Night Shift

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Sometimes, dead is better.

— Stephen King, Pet Sematary

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There's nothing like the laughter of a baby. Unless it's 1 A.M. and you're home alone.

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The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.

— Fredric Brown, Knock (short story)

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I was alone in my house when I was awoken by a noise and reached for my flashlight. It was handed to me.

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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.

— Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems

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We graduated virgins, and made sure that title didn’t stick for long. How was I to know it would drive him to insanity?

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What scares me is what scares you. We're all afraid of the same things. That's why horror is such a powerful genre. All you have to do is ask yourself what frightens you and you'll know what frightens me.

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We're put in these impossible situations and we're asked to see all the darkness in the world. And then we have to go and live in it. The only way a person can exist after that is to put up a protective wall. A buffer from the sadness and death and chaos.

— BLGielen, Serial

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Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

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Reality is never as bad as a nightmare as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.

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I felt a queasy mixture of relief and horror: when you finally stop an itch and realize it’s because you’ve ripped a hole in your skin.

— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

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My jaw hit the floor at the realization that stories like The Shining or The Dead Zone or those from Night Shift could actually exist. Characters from and of our world faced with horrors and challenges from somewhere else.

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The characters felt real, the world felt like our own, and there was no safety net — you weren’t safe in the daylight, your family could turn on you, and children weren’t safe from the monster. In fact, sometimes they were its favorite food.

— Mike Flanagan, How Stephen King Scared a Generation of Storytellers Into Existence

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Audiences are hungry for big scares, and this year’s slate of horror films didn’t disappoint.

— Dahlia Balcazar, These Are 2018's Best Horror Films about Women

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There are black zones of shadow close to our daily paths, and now and then some evil soul breaks a passage through. When that happens, the man who knows must strike before reckoning the consequences.

— H. P. Lovecraft, The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Classics)

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But the horror... The horror was for love. The things we do for love like this are ugly, mad, full of sweat and regret. This love burns you and maims you and twists you inside out. It is a monstrous love and it makes monsters of us all.

— Lady Lucille Sharpe (Jessica Chastain), Crimson Peak

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You can get used to horror, he thought. When it has lost immediacy and is no longer pungent and has become a steady diet. When it has degraded to a chain of mind-numbing events.

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And feast on the dead, I thought with a shudder. As if he could read my thoughts, he pressed a hand to my shoulder. His fingers were long and white, splaying over my arm like a waxen spider. If the gesture was meant to comfort me, it failed.

— Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising (The Grisha Trilogy)

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Hemingway sucks, basically. If people like that, terrific. But if I set out to write that way, what would've come out would've been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me.

— Stephen King, Stephen King: The Rolling Stone Interview

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We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

— Stephen King, Needful Things

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You know what I realized? In all of the time that I've lived alone in this house, I swear I've closed more doors than I've opened.

— EvilSteveDave, 21 Chilling Two-Sentence Horror Stories to Creep You Out

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My wife woke me up last night to tell me there was an intruder in hour house. She was murdered by an intruder 2 years ago.

— The_D_String, via Reddit

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