Some werewolves are hairy on the inside.
Most gothics are overplotted novels whose success or failure hinges on the author's ability to make you believe in the characters and partake of the mood.
We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.
Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.
Death in the horror movies is when the monsters get you.
Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power; great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or lose it tragically; mediocre fantasy fiction is about people who have it and never lose it but simply wield it.
Feelings are never stupid, they just make us feel stupid sometimes.
I'm dating three men, living with two more, and having occasional sex with two others. That's seven men. I'm like a pornographic Snow White. I think seven is plenty.
Either way, it happened, and everyone was going to pretend that it didn't.
I thought it was foolish mumbo jumbo when I was alive - then I woke up dead.
Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good?
who me?" anita blake series by: Laurell K Hamilton
The most classic horror tale of this latter type is the Old Testament story of Job, who becomes human Astro-Turf in a kind of spiritual Superbowl between God and Satan.
