“The horror genre—which I define as perfectly horrible things happen to perfectly nice people for no reason at all.”

—  Marion Zimmer Bradley

Source: Introduction to The Cloud of Evil in Marion Zimmer Bradley (ed.), Sword and Sorceress 7 (1990), p. 27

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