Creepy Quotes

"People Die...Beauty Fades...Love Changes...And You Will Always Be Alone"

L.J. Smith

"Death twitches my ear;'Live,' he says... 'I'm coming."

Virgil

"We feel most alive when we are closest to death."

Nenia Campbell

"It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight."

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories

"There is a child - a baby - who long since kicked off her blankets. Her skin is ashen and her mouth open in a perpetual yet silent scream. She isn't old enough to roll over, to sit up, to climb. So she lies there kicking her fat legs against the footboard of the crib, eternally calling for her mother. For food. For flesh."

Carrie Ryan, The Forest of Hands and Teeth

"And as he leaned in to kiss me, my eye saw his open mouth grow larger and larger until it seemed it could swallow me whole."

Alexandra Kleeman, Intimations: Stories

"When I said it aloud, it sounded terribly creepy, which is why I had said it aloud."

Amanda Hocking

"There's only one way in and one way out of this world."

Sarah Beth Durst, Conjured

"She put her tongue out and felt the raw edges of the torn silk. She looped her tongue around them and drew them into her teeth. Just a little bit, she thought, that's all I need to free my eyelids. She pulled the tasteless web between her teeth and ground, pulling her jaw down in a grimace - it felt as it she was eating the very skin off her face. But the silk over her eyelids shifted."

Stephen M. Irwin, The Dead Path

"It waited for her. Standing resolute in the moonlight, it had stood for a hundred years. Yet it waited just for her. Shadows passed across the moon, a cool breeze ruffled the leaves around it. Yet still it waited for her. Ancient tombs glowed in shimmery moonlight, row upon row of cold silent witnesses."

Grace Willows, Don't Look Back: And Other Stories of the Paranormal

"Conquest was not satisfying if it began with a surrender."

Nenia Campbell, Horrorscape

"Come out, come out, wherever you are... come out, come out, or you'll end up in the tar..."

Beatrice Rose Roberts, Twin Loyalties: From the Chronicles of Tar Ponds City

"Sanctum, a holy or sacred place. What could be more sacred than possessing the power of your own true thoughts? Sanctum. It is both lock and key."

Madeleine Roux, Sanctum

"Directing a funeral isn’t about death at all. Funerals are for the living, not the dead."

Rebecca McNutt, Restless Souls and Shallow Graves: A Short Story

"When we mated I felt your heart stop beating and it was as if the world had stopped turning. It was only while surrounded by death that I realized I had never felt more alive."

Nenia Campbell, Terrorscape

"I turned to him and he reached for my hand. It would have been easier to walk away. But the wind still blew around us and the house still stood."

Kate Chisman, Creep

"Repression. Her therapist, Dr. Solomon, loved the word. He'd say it slowly, letting it roll off his tongue. Sometimes he'd add a chin stroke for good measure. He always looked pleased when he did this, like he'd discovered the Caramilk secret or something."

Jo Ann Yhard, The Fossil Hunter of Sydney Mines

"This was a normal town once, and we were normal people. Most of us worked at the plastics factory on the outskirts of town. Then one day there was an accident... something escaped from the factory, a yellow gas. It floated over the town so fast that we didn't see it, didn't realize... and then it was too late, and Dark Falls wasn't a normal town anymore."

R.L. Stine, Welcome to Dead House

"I got bored," he says. "Besides, you know what's creepier than walking around your dead brothers' apartment? Sitting alone in a hearse in front of his apartment."

Holly Black, Red Glove

"We have our own personal demons to deal with."

Daniel Lewis

"Would've been useful when I was about eight," I said. "I used to have wicked nightmares." I did, too: stupid dreams about being chased by Elmo. A psycho Elmo with eyes like that Chucky doll. I'd wake up screaming and Vicky would come running in and ask what the nightmare was about. I never told her. I was too embarrassed."

Robin Stevenson, The World Without Us

"...in the middle of the field, Harry suddenly stopped and looked back. Mr. Chad was all alone in the creepy woods. He could take care of himself...couldn't he? Of course he could, he was a teacher."

Connie Kingrey Anderson, Toadies

"The dark is generous, and it is patient, and it always wins. It always wins because it is everywhere. It is in the wood that burns in your hearth, and in the kettle on the fire; it is under your chair and under your table and under the sheets on your bed. Walk in the midday sun, and the dark is with you, attached to the soles of your feet. The brightest light casts the darkest shadow."

Matthew Woodring Stover

"In most respects a pretty standard student domicile, there was something very unnerving about the apartment, and I couldn't quite put my finger on it. Eventually I realized: the light in the bathroom never turns off."

Al Burian, Burn Collector: Collected Stories from One Through Nine

"If on thoughts of death we are fed,Thus, a coffin, became my bed."

E.A. Bucchianeri, Phantom Phantasia: Poetry for the Phantom of the Opera Phan

"Bodies lay in the sun. Bodies stood in the sun."

N.J. Hallard, Breaking News: An Autozombiography

"His body walks out onto the darkened stage , and a roar goes up from the crowd. He stands in front of the mic, and he can feel his face twist in a sneer-the Elvis sneer from his dreams-though he never told it to move. He is powerless now, a spectator at his own moment of glory."

Joseph Garraty, Voice

"The girl lives in a beautiful dollhouse made of stone, I wrote one time in my diary when I was young, my handwriting shaky but sure. But underneath her shining plastic smile, there are only screams."

Amy Lukavics, The Women in the Walls

"Fear of night. Fear of not night."

Franz Kafka

"Shirts and jeans litter the asphalt, the empty fabric limbs askew as if they're attempting to escape. Blood smears Sarah's lips as she struggles against the chest of a dirty looking man with a beard. Terror. Terror is the only word my mind can seize on and it forgets what it means. I forget how to think - to move."

Brenna Ehrlich, Placid Girl

"I second that. This is all so creepy. I feel like we are in some sort of strange movie, forget an episode of Buffy. We have passed into official horror movie territory.”-Nessa and Cora"

Andrea Heltsley, Dissolve

"If I catch you, I might do anything. I might strip the skin from your bones as I drain you dry. Or I might drag you into my chambers and have you pleasure me in ways you cannot even imagine. I might even take mercy on you, and that would be the cruelest injustice of all, because for you, it would only be a temporary reprieve."

Nenia Campbell, Bleeds My Desire

"It takes many sheep to satisfy one wolf."

Nenia Campbell, Horrorscape

"There was something delightfully intimate about the relationship between predator and prey."

Nenia Campbell, Horrorscape

"The sleepless hum of the city was abidingly in his ears, and the lamps that dotted the misty pavements stared at him blinkingly all along the route. The tall black buildings rose up grimly into the night; the faces that flitted to and fro along the pavements, kept ever sliding past him, melting into the darkness; and the cabs and 'buses, still astir in the streets, had a ghostly air as they vanished in the gloom.("An Unexpected Journey")"

J.H. Pearce, Tales from a Gas-Lit Graveyard

"Ask yourself what a man without guile might do to your body in the dark."

Nenia Campbell, Terrorscape

"These were the things we would never notice were missing."

Kate Chisman, Creep

"The impulse came to her clairvoyantly, and she obeyed without a sign of hesitation. Deeper comprehension would come to her of the whole awful puzzle. And come it did, yet not in the way she imagined and expected."

Algernon Blackwood, The Man Whom the Trees Loved

"The silence of a convent at night is the silence of the grave. Too far removed from the busy world without for external sounds to penetrate the thick walls, whilst within no slamming door, nor wandering foot, nor sacrilegious voice breaks in upon the stillness, the slightest noise strikes upon the ear with a fearful distinctness. ("The Monk's Story")"

Catherine Crowe, Reign of Terror

"...his voice was like the cracking of ice on a winter lake, and the words were mocking"

George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

"And feast on the dead, I thought with a shudder. As if he could read my thoughts, he pressed a hand to my shoulder. His fingers were long and white, splaying over my arm like a waxen spider. If the gesture was meant to comfort me, it failed."

Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

"We could argue about what constitutes the creepiest line in pop music, but for me it's early Beatles- John Lennon, actually- singing 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man."

Stephen King

"You should see it,” he said. “V for Vendetta, I mean.”“Okay,” I said. “I’ll look it up.”“No. With me. At my house,” he said. “Now."

John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

"Never a good sign, he thought, when the crows showed up."

Justin Cronin, The Twelve

"If he had spent just a little less time wrapped up in his thoughts, he never would have ignored the shadow that crept up on him, with hands made of darkness stretched and at the ready to separate him from his job by the most effective means of unemployment there has ever been."

Jim Dyar, The Zeus Gambit

"I know you love how I make it all go away: all the joy, all the pain, all thoughts in your brain.For the price of your soul, I will hold your heart in my talons. For three summers straight you've been my sweet eye candy;and no one will ever, ever, take you away from me."

Say Anything, Skinny mean man

"Most people say about graveyards: "Oh, it's just a bunch of dead people. It's creepy." But for me, there's an energy to it that it not creepy, or dark. It has a positive sense to it."

Tim Burton

"Do I detect a renewal of your fighting spirit? I'm so glad. To tell the truth, I've been getting quite bored. Bring it on, Grace--I'm waiting for you."

B.A. Paris, Behind Closed Doors

"You're like a half-tamed creature, still shy of the bridle. 'Except you enthrall me, never shall be free.' But freedom is an illusion, anyway."

Nenia Campbell, Fearscape

"In Bruce’s opinion, the only fun in dating was the sport of it. The more it was like a tennis match, where he had to wear down his opponent through expertise and sheer force of will, the better he liked it."

Francine Pascal, A Night to Remember

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