The old sleep poorly. Perhaps they stand watch.

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.

If something is accessible to a lot of people, it's got to be dumb because most people are dumb.

When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

Man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that gets in his way.

I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.

Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it started.