Ellen Datlow Quotes

I think when people are scared, they like to see movies where the scares are not real.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares.

It's the idea that anticipation is as scary as anything in a movie could be. People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.

I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it.

I think if you looked at the kind of ebb and flow of supernatural fiction and horror fiction, it does seem to be more popular in times when we're hammered over the head daily with threats from all angles, very real threats.

There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?

I love ghost stories but I can't really watch them, especially not by myself because then I can't sleep.

Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.

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.

I love horror and sci-fi.

The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.

Whether it's via the monstrous or the paranormal, horror actually can really get at some of the most fundamental human questions.

Witches were really scary to me as a kid.

When I was a kid, I really got into monsters.

Our imagination often is more horrifying than being shown something.

Terror. When you come home and notice everything you own has been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It’s when the lights go out and you feel something behind you-you hear it-you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around there’s nothing there.

One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror which entirely consumed her and did not leave her until the night closed in catastrophe for she had no instinct for self-preservation if she was confronted by ambiguities.

... we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.

Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.

Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.

Death is when the monsters get you.

I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was.

As a 12-year-old, I think everything seems scary.

Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.