I wanted to explore this idea that the bogey man in the closet is scary, but being a mother is scarier.

The dead pull the living down.

Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.

Terror is the desire to save your own ass, but horror is rooted in sympathy.

He believed in his own decency with all his heart. So it was with every true monster, Vic supposed.