Quotes about Weird fiction

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The raven – Asker – immediately cawed. It sounded suspiciously like laughter. “Not... be afraid of Asker.” The raven’s b — Tim Reed, The Eight Islands: Summons of the Majestic
Cadavers and spirits are human refuse, and they are absurdly difficult to dispose of properly. When someone dies, a smal — Michael Cisco, The Traitor
While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent — H.P. Lovecraft, Notes On Writing Weird Fiction
Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivi — H.P. Lovecraft, Notes On Writing Weird Fiction
On the other side of that big-ass mirror, a video camera was watching us. In about ten seconds, it was going to start sp — Clinton Boomer, The Hole Behind Midnight
Stupid dire warnings of imminent doom.They always put me in a bad mood. — Clinton Boomer, The Hole Behind Midnight
Such ordeals always strike one with their strangeness, their digression from the normal flow of events, and often provok — Thomas Ligotti, Noctuary
Evil should not be, Detective Vera. Truly never can be. But in defining it as such, an inherent human bond with negativi — John Claude Smith, Autumn in the Abyss
Krisztina played the song. It was a lament made of eight notes, repeated. It was an empty melody. It sounded elemental t — Simon Avery, The Teardrop Method
I believe,' Muswell once said, 'that mental isolation is the essence of weird fiction. Isolation when confronted with di — Mark Samuels, Best New Horror 15
If there's one thing Robert had learned in three weeks at Lovecraft Middle School, it's that nothing was impossible. — Charles Gilman, Professor Gargoyle
Sound waves, regardless of their frequency or intensity, can only be detected by the Mole Fly’s acute sense of smell—it — Ashim Shanker, Don't Forget to Breathe
Now that's a ghastly moon, not ghostly. — Anthea Carson, The Dark Lake
Jane sneezed three hundred dollars' worth of coke into the air.Krishna's black eyes seem to have mirrors in them. She gl — Anthea Carson, The Dark Lake
A vision of the Shining One swirling into our world, a monstrous, glorious flaming pillar of incarnate, eternal Evil--of — Abraham Grace Merritt, The Moon Pool
It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly conte — Arthur Machen, The Hill of Dreams
All that was left to us was to wonder: who knows all that is innate to this world, or to any other? Why should there not — Thomas Ligotti, Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
Dunce is completely bald and has a really pointed head so the temptation to get him paralytic on his thirtieth birthday, — Mike Russell, Nothing Is Strange