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Writing Terror into Your Horror
Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is. And while it reigns, it is as if there is nothing in the universe that it is not.
from The Narrow Road to the Deep North: A novel (Vintage International) by Richard Flanagan
Horror offers a chance to recognize this truth, to explore dark places in a safe way.”
from Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle
Matt Klein added
- “Horror is something perfectly natural: the mind’s emptiness. A thought is taking shape, then suddenly it notices that there is nothing more to think. Whereupon it crashes to the ground like a figure in a comic strip who suddenly realizes that he has been walking on air.”
from A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by ECW Press
Jay Matthews added
The genre we describe as horror today has its roots in the romance and Gothic genres of the eighteenth century, which in turn were influenced by the pre-Romantic movement known as the Graveyard Poets,
from Red X: A Novel by David Demchuk