Horror Literature

🇺🇸Sheri S. Tepper

Literature

1929–2016

"The Gardener says that mortals often pass laws they cannot enforce in order to be seen as “strong,” or “determined,” even though they know the laws will not solve the problem."

"Soviet colonialism sabotaged the foundations of a modern, liberal national state in Georgia."

🇺🇸Sarah Monette

Literature

b. 1974

"He did not entirely believe himself, but he knew he had best pretend he did."

"It might be argued that civilization is nothing else, that is to say: the tendency of personal authority to decline towards zero."

Lafcadio Hearn

Literature

1850–1904

"He is the writer in our language who can best be compared with Hans Christian Andersen and the brothers Grimm."

🇺🇸H. P. Lovecraft

Literature

1890–1937

"Madness rides the star-wind... claws and teeth sharpened on centuries of corpses... dripping death astride a bacchanale of bats from nigh-black ruins of buried temples of Belial..."

🇺🇸Dan Simmons

Literature

1948–2026

"“One of the few benefits of the fall of civilization as we know it,” he says, “is that there are private cellars with fine vintages everywhere one digs. It is not theft. It is archaeology."

🇺🇸Rachel Caine

Literature

1962–2020

"Jealous?""Maybe.""No reason. I like my ladies with a pulse."