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There are times when fear is not our enemy. There are times when fear is our truest, sometimes only, friend. -- Rick Yancey
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They held each other and wept as the night closed its fist around their tiny shelter, and the world below them seethed with killers both living and dead. -- Jonathan Maberry
My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books. -- Alejandro Amenabar
It was a house for those who could not take care of themselves, for those who heard voices, who had strange thoughts and did strange things. The house was meant to keep them in. Once they came, they never left. -- Madeleine Roux
But these weren't the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around-they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don't recognize them for what they are until it's too late. -- Ransom Riggs
But what Davenport had been born into had taken so much from her, leaving her with just the wickedest and the worst. Her father had given her life, and then taken every scrap of joy or freedom, and even now that he was dead, all he had left her with was a deep, abiding hatred for what she was. -- Brenna Yovanoff
Nothin's real scary except in books. -- Harper Lee
Think books aren't scary? Well, think about this: You can't spell "Book" without "Boo! -- Stephen Colbert
I've come to the conclusion that you can't write scary books unless you're easily scared yourself. -- Mary Downing Hahn
I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real. -- R. L. Stine
How could it be that I wanted those scary narrow streets and books and coffee shops for her so much more than she wanted them for herself~? -- Rufi Thorpe
When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books. -- R. L. Stine

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