Scary Quotes

"They all agreed that it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend. I assure you that there is a reign of terror in the district, and that it is a hardy man who will cross the moor at night." ~ The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving. ~ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please. ~ Dracula by Bram Stoker "There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples." ~ Dracula by Bram Stoker "There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part." ~ Dracula by Bram Stoker "I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane." ~ Dracula by Bram Stoker "For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin', and death be all that we can rightly depend on." ~ Dracula by Bram Stoker "We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things." ~ Dracula by Bram Stoker "I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome." ~ Dracula by Bram Stoker Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear. The sound was taken up by another dog, and then another and another, till, borne on the wind which now sighed softly through the Pass, a wild howling began, which seemed to come from all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night. ~ Dracula by Bram Stoker