'O’er all there hung the shadow of a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted' -Thomas Hood 🎨Wilfred Jenkins #BookWormSat

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“But even the best man comes with the strength and stature to remind a woman that every time he doesn’t hurt her is a favor.” - Sign Here by Claudia Lux 🩸📚 💙📚 #horrorsky #horrorbooks #horrorlit #horrorwriters #horrorauthor #horrorquotes #horror

"Monsters are tragic beings. They are born too tall, too strong, too heavy. They are not evil by choice. That is their tragedy." —Ishiro Honda Do any of you have horror-related quotes or good lines to share?

Grandpas: Baptist preacher, Air Force then truck driver Grandmas: Baptist preacher and healer, Prima ballerina then dance teacher

“She’d learned rebellion while muttering the rosary.” Mexican Gothic by @silviamg.bsky.social 🩸📚 💙📚 #horrorsky #horrorbooks #horrorlit #horrorwriters #horrorauthor #horrorquotes #horror

“Their love wanted to fix her, and refused to see that she wasn’t broken.” - Every Heart a Doorway by @seananmcguire.bsky.social 🩸📚 💙📚 #horrorsky #horrorbooks #horrorlit #horrorwriters #horrorauthor #horrorquotes #horror

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“Spirits like her are not drawn to the happy and carefree; they want salt, be it blood or be it tears.” - My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna van Veen 🩸📚 💙📚 #horrorsky #horrorbooks #horrorlit #horrorwriters #horrorauthor #horrorquotes #horror

“Nobody ever really expects a serial killer with nice tits.” Sister, Maiden, Monster by @lucyasnyder.bsky.social 🩸📚 💙📚 #horrorsky #horrorbooks #horrorlit #horrorwriters #horrorauthor #horrorquotes #horror

“We weave warmth from their hair, make trinkets with their teeth. We keep their names alive with our winnowing songs. There is beauty in the body, even in its winter, even in its season of death.” - A Girl Walks into the Forest by @authoroux.bsky.social 🩸📚 #horrorsky #horrorbooks #horrorlit

“I can’t tell whether I want to laugh or cry, so we eat instead.” - She Is a Haunting by @nvtran.bsky.social 🩸📚 💙📚 #horrorsky #horrorbooks #horrorlit #horrorwriters #horrorauthor #horrorquotes #horror

“The enemy of the shadow isn’t light. It’s sight.” The Jackal by @iameeadams.bsky.social 🩸📚 💙📚 #horrorsky #horrorbooks #horrorlit #horrorwriters #horrorauthor #horrorquotes #horror

“What beauty he did not see in them, I will return to him as pain.” -A Girl Walks into the Forest by Madeleine Roux @authoroux.bsky.social 🩸📚 #horrorsky #horrorbooks #horrorlit #horrorwriters #horrorauthor #horrorquotes #horror

“It is always interesting to see how often women are described as ravenous when it is the men who, without exception, take without thought of compensation.” -The Salt Grows Heavy by @casskhaw.bsky.social 🩸📚 #horrorsky #horrorbooks #horrorlit #horrorwriters #horrorauthor #horrorquotes #horror

Four movies I would grab from the Criterion closet

“To want is to be bewitched, I’ve long thought. If it’s beautiful or sweet, it will ruin you.” - How to Be Eaten by Maria Adelmann 🩸📚 💙📚 #horrorsky #horrorbooks #horrorlit #horrorwriters #horrorauthor #horrorquotes #horror

“Normal is a bitter pill that we rail against.” - The Drowning Girl by @caitlinrkiernan.bsky.social 🩸📚 💙📚 #horrorsky #horrorbooks #horrorlit #horrorwriters #horrorauthor #horrorquotes #horror

“…if the men responsible for this carnage intended it for some greater purpose, then their means had hopelessly defiled their ends.” The Fisherman by @johnlangan.bsky.social 🩸📚 💙📚 #horrorsky #horrorbooks #horrorlit #horrorwriters #horrorauthor #horrorquotes #horror

“Maybe the true horror of the werewolf is that the change is never permanent.” - When the Wolf Comes Home by @natcassidy.bsky.social 🩸📚 💙📚 #horrorsky #horrorbooks #horrorlit #horrorwriters #horrorauthor #horrorquotes #horror

“There comes a point in life when you’ve seen so much that hardly anything surprises you or bothers you, and that’s a shitty moment. Wisdom is so terribly overrated.” The Hike by @drewmagary.bsky.social 🩸📚 #horrorsky #horrorbooks #horrorlit #horrorwriters #horrorauthor #horrorquotes #horror

“Horror was rooted in sympathy, after all, in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.” Heart Shaped Box by @joe-hill.bsky.social 🩸📚 #horrorsky #horrorbooks #horrorlit #horrorwriters #horrorauthor #horrorquotes #horror

“Being attacked over and over, it hasn't weakened her, it's cut away her restraints. The slasher thought he was tormenting her. He thought he was the one in charge. Wrong. He was fashioning his own death. He was building the perfect killing machine.” - My Heart Is a Chainsaw by @sgj.bsky.social

“They all want to live 'in harmony with nature' before some of them realize, too late, that nature is anything but harmonious.” Devolution by @maxbrooks.bsky.social 🩸📚 #horrorsky #horrorbooks #horrorlit #horrorwriters #horrorauthor #horrorquotes #horror

“It was so hard, sorting through what was left of me when I cut off the parts that existed for others.” -The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by @kierstenwhite.bsky.social 🩸📚 #horrorsky #horrorbooks #horrorlit #horrorwriters #horrorauthor #horrorquotes #horror

“My heart is a dark passage, lined with ranks of gleaming jars. In each one something floats. The past, preserved as if in spirit.“ - Little Eve by @catrionaward.bsky.social 🩸📚 #horrorsky #horrorbooks #horrorlit #horrorwriters #horrorauthor #horrorquotes #horror

“But that’s America, I guess. Everything stolen. Stolen stories, stolen names, stolen dreams, and stolen people. Bury your victims and build on top of them.” -Black River Orchard by @chuckwendig.bsky.social 🩸📚 #horrorsky #horrorlit #horrorwriters #horrorbooks #horrorquotes #horror

“Humans like to put their mouths on the things they love.” - Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth 🩸📚 #horrorsky #horrorbooks #horrorlit #horrorwriters #horrorauthor #horrorquotes #horror

“What beauty he did not see in them, I will return to him as pain.” -A Girl Walks into the Forest by Madeleine Roux @authoroux.bsky.social 🩸📚 #horrorsky #horrorbooks #horrorlit #horrorwriters #horrorauthor #horrorquotes #horror

“I’m a director,” he says. “Ahh,” I say. “I only watch porn.” - Maeve Fly by CJ Leede (@ceejthemoment.bsky.social)

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“The soil of this continent is a mound of congealed blood and shredded, whipped flesh that is tilled century after century with an iron rake of hate.” - Queen of the Cicadas by V. Castro 🩸📚 #horrorsky #horrorbooks #horrorlit #horrorwriters #horrorauthor #horrorquotes #horror

“So much misery in this world just to give a few cruel men a quick spurt.” - Mary: An Awakening of Terror by @natcassidy.bsky.social 🩸📚 #horrorsky #horrorbooks #horrorlit #horrorwriters #horrorauthor #horrorquotes #horror #minnesota

“When someone smiles, they’re showing their skeleton.” - Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica 🩸📚 #horrorsky #horrorbooks #horrorlit #horrorwriters #horrorauthor #horrorquotes #horror

“Many things that are true feel like a cheat. Kingdoms get the princes they deserve, farmers’ daughters die for no reason, and sometimes witches merit saving.” - A Monster Calls by @patricknessbooks.bsky.social 🩸📚 #horrorsky #horrorbooks #horrorwriters #horrorauthor #horrorquotes #horror

“At first, ignoring my reflection as diligently as I would ignore a stranger I didn’t trust felt rude, but I soon got used to the idea that I didn’t need a reflected version of me.” -Feral by Gemma Amor (@manylittlewords.bsky.social) 🩸📚 #horrorsky #horrorbooks #horrorlit #horrorquotes #horror

“Every story begins in blood: a squalling baby yanked from the womb, bathed in mucus and half a quart of their mother’s blood.” - The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix 🩸📚 #horrorsky #horrorbooks #horrorlit #horrorquotes #horror

Hello there. This is just a little space for me to catalog my favorite quotes from my favorite genre. Follow along if you like and feel free to tag me in sharing your own. 🩸📚 #horrorsky #horrorbooks #horrorlit #horrorquotes #horror