43 Quotes About Gothic-horror

The wicked have no empathy for the pure.

To me, Gothic fiction is the literary representation of the stormy gloom of the British Isles.

The original Gothic horror tales focused on personalities deformed through loneliness. Ghouls, vampires, werewolves: all made, not born. But the isolation? Are even such as these ever truly alone? Perhaps the psyche has always been more complex than that, desire eternally more potent than terror. Surely, none prowl entirely in solitude.

Admitting defeat? How un-huntress like of you.

We fear the dead, when really, we ought to be far more afraid of the living.

You can talk to me,” she said. “I only talk with thedead, and they’re the best at keeping secrets.

This is a gift, Helena, not a curse. You can helpthem,” Minerva said.“I’m afraid of them,” Helena replied, blunt as a butcher’sknife.“And they sense that, and they think they can takeyour place,” Minerva replied, matching Helena’s tone.

Insects crawled across my skin, legs skittering across my flesh, numbed paths of cold left in their wake. They were the creatures that heralded my ghosts, and I knew them well, yet the revulsion they caused in those moments far exceeded anything I’d felt before.

Gloomy days, whether meteorological or psychological, lend themselves more to the creation of Gothic horror. On those insular days, the mind gravitates towards the unseen and the subconscious. Days of blinding sunshine banish the desire to ruminate and it is replaced with a longing to participate in the outside world.