“Readers love fantasy, but we need horror. Smart horror. Truthful horror. Horror that helps us make sense of a cruelly senseless world.”
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“But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.”
Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it.”
Source: The Last Werewolf
Interview: Kane Hodder Talks Stunt Work, Acting and His Career in Horror http://www.geekchicelite.com/interview-kane-hodder-talks-stunt-work-acting-and-his-career-in-horror/ (September 10, 2015)
“The reason that I like SF and fantasy and horror is that to me it's the pulp wing of surrealism.”
interview with 3am
Part 3, Chapter 17 (p. 208)
Nifft the Lean (1982)
Interview with Weird Tales (24 May 2007) http://weirdtales.net/wordpress/2007/05/24/george-rr-martin-on-magic-vs-science/
Context: I think that for science fiction, fantasy, and even horror to some extent, the differences are skin-deep. I know there are elements in the field, particularly in science fiction, who feel that the differences are very profound, but I do not agree with that analysis. I think for me it is a matter of the furnishings. An elf or an alien may in some ways fulfill the same function, as a literary trope. It’s almost a matter of flavor. The ice cream can be chocolate or it can be strawberry, but it’s still ice cream. The real difference, to my mind, is between romantic fiction, which all these genres are a part of, and mimetic fiction, or naturalistic fiction.