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Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud. ~\u00a0Oedipus Rex<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Sophocles<\/a><\/p>\n “‘The horror! The horror!” ~\u00a0Heart of Darkness<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Joseph Conrad<\/a><\/p>\n In victory one does not understand the horror of war. It is only in the cold chill of defeat that it is brought home to you. ~\u00a0The Adventures of Gerard<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/a><\/p>\n For a moment he paused there, the wind blowing his long grey locks about his head, and twisting into grotesque and fantastic folds the nameless horror of the dead man’s shroud. ~\u00a0The Canterville Ghost<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Oscar Wilde<\/a><\/p>\n There are horrors beyond horrors, and this was one of those nuclei of all dreamable hideousness which the cosmos saves to blast an accursed and unhappy few. ~\u00a0The Shunned House<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0H. P. Lovecraft<\/a><\/p>\n Beyond this place of wrath and tears It was worse than anything. Mrs. Hall, standing open-mouthed and horror-struck, shrieked at what she saw, and made for the door of the house. Everyone began to move. They were prepared for scars, disfigurements, tangible horrors, but nothing! The bandages and false hair flew across the passage into the bar, making a hobbledehoy jump to avoid them. Everyone tumbled on everyone else down the steps. For the man who stood there shouting some incoherent explanation, was a solid gesticulating figure up to the coat-collar of him, and then\u2014nothingness, no visible thing at all! ~\u00a0The Invisible Man<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0H. G. Wells<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Check out this literary collection of quotes about horror. Including: ”Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.”<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[947],"tags":[326,541,141,1227,864,305,316,172,826,315,1228,740,841,1215,936,865],"class_list":["post-5299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quote-topics","tag-h-g-wells","tag-h-p-lovecraft","tag-heart-of-darkness","tag-horror-quotes","tag-invictus","tag-joseph-conrad","tag-oedipus-rex","tag-oscar-wilde","tag-sir-arthur-conan-doyle","tag-sophocles","tag-the-adventures-of-gerard","tag-the-canterville-ghost","tag-the-invisible-man","tag-the-shunned-house","tag-topic1","tag-william-ernest-henley"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nLooms but the Horror of the shade,
\nAnd yet the menace of the years
\nFinds, and shall find, me unafraid. ~\u00a0Invictus<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0William Ernest Henley<\/a><\/p>\nMore Quotes About Horror from Literature<\/a><\/h3>\n