The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it's when the lights go out and something green an...
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If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered.
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Alone.Yes,that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.
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Before drifting away entirely, he found himself reflecting---not for the first time---on the peculiarity of adults. Thet took laxatives, liquor, or sl...
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I suspect that fright, like pain, is one of those things that slip our minds once they have passed. What I do remember is a feeling I'd had before whe...
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At the same moment a cold chill traced a finger down the middle of my back. Sometimes things come back to you, that's all. Sometimes they come back.
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Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we g...
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You laugh because what's fearful and unknown is also what's funny, you laugh the way a small child will sometimes laugh and cry at the same time when ...
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Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.
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As always, the blessed relief of starting, a feeling that was like falling into a hole filled with bright light.As always, the glum knowledge that he ...
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His so-fucking-vivid imagination rarely gave him the horrors, but when it did, God help him. God help him once it was warmed up. It was not only warme...
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I'm convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. If one is writing for one's own pleasure, that fear may be mild — timidity is the word I'v...
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Frightened people live in their own special hell.
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I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.
