If a man harbors any sort of fear, it makes him landlord to a ghost. -- Lloyd Douglas
Where there is no imagination, there is no horror. -- Sir Arthur Conan DoylePerfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror. -- Carlos Fuentes
I'd never watch a horror film, but after I found out I was going to be in one, I watched, like, four of them, including The Shining. I was terrified--I couldn't sleep for days. But I wanted to get myself used to things I was going to see on the set. -- Jennifer Love Hewitt
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. -- Eric Hoffer
There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. -- Victor Hugo
Terror. . . often arises from a pervasive sense of disestablishment: that things are in the unmaking. -- Stephen King
Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on. -- River Phoenix
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth--more than ruin, more even than death. -- Bertrand Russell
Civilization is hideously fragile [and] there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish. -- C. P. Snow
He's not stupid; he's possessed by a retarded ghost. --UnknownOne might say that the true subject of the horror genre is the struggle for recognition of all that our civilization represses and oppresses. -- Robin Wood
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