“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, wattpad.com
“It's times like this when Adam started to question reality. Whether this was real or just a realistic nightmare that he couldn't escape.”— SpiderBabyLily, wattpad.com
“I've never seen his face. But I have scars from his knife. My blood stains his hands. He keeps me here in the dark. But I want to see the light again. He wants me to love him. But how could I? To me, he is a monster, the bringer of a fate worse than death. Oh, but what a relief death would be! I use…”— z0mbies, wattpad.com
“The only difference between cops and criminals is that cops get paid for their crimes while the criminals have to pay for theirs.”— BL Gielen, wattpad.com
“Horror changes us, because we can never forget. Cursed with memory. It starts when we're old enough to know what death is and realize that sooner or later we'll lose everyone we love. We're never the same. But somehow we're all right. We go on.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com
“And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; And my soul from out that shadow that lies…”— Edgar Allan Poe, amazon.com
“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”— Edgar Allan Poe, amazon.com
“I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.”— Edgar Allan Poe, amazon.com
“There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad Humanity may assume the semblance of a Hell -- but the imagination of man is no Carathis, to explore with impunity its every cavern. Alas! the grim legion of sepulchral terrors cannot be regarded as altogether fanciful --…”— Edgar Allan Poe, amazon.com
“Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities- that theory to which the most glorious objects of human research are indebted for the most glorious of illustration.”— Edgar Allan Poe, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“I was alone in my house when I was awoken by a noise and reached for my flashlight. It was handed to me.”— AllTheoryNoPractice, dreadcentral.com
“A girl heard her mom yell her name from downstairs, so she got up and started to head down. Halfway down she hears her mother call from the bedroom, "Don't go down, honey, I heard it too!"”— drrd777, reddit.com
“I can't move, breathe, speak or hear and it's so dark all the time. If I knew it would be this lonely, I would have been cremated instead.”— Graboid27, reddit.com
“Don't be scared of the monsters, just look for them. Look to your left, to your right, under your bed, behind your dresser, in your closet but never look up, she hates being seen.”— AnarchistWaffles, reddit.com
“I begin tucking him into bed and he tells me, 'Daddy check for monsters under my bed.' I look underneath for his amusement and see him, another him, under the bed, staring back at me quivering and whispering, 'Daddy there’s somebody on my bed.'”— Juan J Ruiz, reddit.com
“The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.”— Fredric Brown, en.wikipedia.org
“There's nothing like the laughter of a baby. Unless it's 1 A.M. and you're home alone.”— watermelonmoose, imgur.com
“I always thought my cat had a staring problem - she always seemed fixated on my face. Until one day, when I realized that she was always looking behind me.”— AverageEAtTheirYoung, reddit.com