Stephen King Quotes

Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world.

Making night hideous.

Why not rise from the grave and terrorize a little instead of staying buried and dead in the cemetery?

Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers, tommyknockers knocking on my door. I wanna go out, don't know if I can 'cuz I'm so afraid of the tommyknocker man.

my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me.

In El-harím, there lived a man, a man with yellow eyes. To me, he said, "Beware the whispers, for they whisper lies. Do not wrestle with the demons of the dark, Else upon your mind they'll place a mark; Do not listen to the shadows of the deep, Else they haunt you even when you sleep.

I am a cemetery abhorred by the moon, In which long worms crawl like remorse.

The night has a capacity for terror that the day can never match.

I'm a goner, a kid who stays up half the night trying to figure out the horror of the world and trying to survive it.

I have always loved reading a little creep-factor and a lot of suspense.

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

You kind of invite a little spooky, creepy vibe into your whole experience of making a movie.

No one escapes being haunted by something that absolutely terrifies them to the core, but very few feel it's okay to admit what it is that haunts us.

The best monsters are our anxieties given form. They make sense on the level of a dream - or a nightmare.

Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.

Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.

I don't like the dark. I really am afraid of the dark.

Everything scares me. I'm very easily frightened. But the thing that scares me most is zombies. I really, really don't like zombies.

Clearly I'm really attracted to parts where there's a dark, sinister feel about them!

Zombies are a great rhetorical prop to talk about people and paranoia, and they are a good vehicle for my misanthropy.

Good horror is about so much more than slashing: it's a way of examining grief and loss of self.

I've always been fascinated by horror.

My adult life is filled with the things horror movies are made of.