“And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity.” - Stephen King, Pet Sematary I want no one to escape.” – Bret Easton Hills, American Psycho In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. “My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.

“People who die bad don’t stay in the ground.” - Toni Morrison, Beloved (He’d never told her what to do if the man was too strong and there was no one to hear her screaming.)” - Lisa Unger, Ink and Bone If someone ever tries to take you, fight with everything you have. “What looked like morning was the beginning of endless night.” ― William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers.” - Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere The dead one tried to show me hell, but it was a pale imitation of the horror I can paint on the darkness in a quiet moment.” ― Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns The spirits of the dead have nothing on it. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold and so by degrees-very gradually-I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.” – Edgar Allen Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart “He had the eye of a vulture-a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.” – Gillian Flynn, Dark Places “I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Here are a few of the most haunting lines in literature that will convince you to pick up a scary book the next time you’re interested in reading something new: There are some hauntingly beautiful horror and thriller novels out there that are worth the read.

Zombie Haiku by Ryan Mecum