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Anthony Hopkins -
"We are fascinated by the darkness in ourselves, we are fascinated by the shadow, we are fascinated by the boogeyman."
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Apocryphal Death Row Last Words, 1823, Van Dieman's Land (Alexander Pearce, The Cannibal Convict):
"No man knows what he will do when driven by hunger."
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Arctic Dreams (Barry Lopez):
"How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself?"
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Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 146 (Friedrich Nietzsche):
"Battle not with monsters
lest ye become a monster;
and if you gaze into the abyss
the abyss gazes into you."
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Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes):
"Fear has many eyes and can see things underground."
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The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (John Clute and John Grant):
"Unlike FANTASY, SUPERNATURAL FICTION and SCIENCE FICTION -- terms which describe generic structure -- horror is a term which describes an affect. A horror story makes its readers feel horror."
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Following the Equator (Mark Twain):
"Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead."
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Friedrich Nietzsche -
"What is done out of love always happens beyond good and evil."
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George A. Romero -
"I've always felt that the real horror is next door to us, that the scariest monsters are our neighbors."
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George Price -
"Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer?"
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Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque (Joyce Carol Oates):
"And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo-that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices."
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Henrik Tikkanen -
"Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence."
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"An Introduction to the American Horror Film" (Robin Wood):
"One might say that the true subject of the horror genre is the struggle for recognition of all that our civilization represses and oppresses."
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Introduction to The Shining (Simon and Schuster edition, 2002) (Stephen King):
"That truth is that monsters are real, and ghosts are real, too. They live inside us, and sometimes they win."
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John Russell -
"Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting."
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Klondike Annie (1936) (Mae West):
"When caught between two evils, I generally like to take the one I never tried."
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Lord Jim (Joseph Conrad):
"There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery."
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Mark Twain -
"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."
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Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life (Theodor W. Adorno):
"Horror is beyond the reach of psychology."
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The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror (Lon Chaney):
"There's nothing funny about a clown in the moonlight."
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -
"Where there is no imagination there is no horror."
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Today Show Interview (1987) (Charles Manson):
"Believe me, if I started murdering people... there'd be none of you left."
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Today Show Interview (1987) (Charles Manson):
"Maybe I should have killed 4-500 people, then I would have felt better. Then I'd felt like I really offered society something."
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Under Western Eyes (Joseph Conrad):
"...A belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."
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