Slasher Quotes

“At first, she bucked like a wild stag beneath me, and she tried to scream, but the pillow did a good job of muffling her voice.  Before long, the bucking stopped, and my wife’s corpse, blue without oxygen, appeared below me like a hideous phantom.”
― Harvey Havel, The Odd and the Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction

“The orderly brandished a hunting knife from a sheath at his waist and sliced open the prisoner’s throat with it.  Warm blood cascaded out of the prisoner’s throat, some of it spraying the captain’s uniform.  The orderly waited for the prisoner to bleed to death before cutting the head clean off.  Within a few minutes, the muscle that the prisoner built on his body was carved out and thrown on the grill.  After the meat cooled, the orderly put the human steaks in front of the captain for dinner.  As the captain ate each buttery piece, he couldn’t help but compliment the orderly for a job well-done.”
― Harvey Havel, The Odd and the Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction

“She tossed him a small mirror so that he could see the results, and what he saw horrified him.  The boiling concoction left a deep trail of burnt skin that stretched from the crown of his head all the way to his chin – almost like an artificial sluice that burned his flesh to form a large rivulet that ran down the center of his face.”
― Harvey Havel, The Odd and the Strange: A Collection of Very Short Fiction

“Horror's not a symptom, it's a love affair.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw

“Some girls just don't know how to die.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw

“Sometimes they need help in the form of a furie running at them, her mouth open in a scream, her eyes white hot, her heart forever pure.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw

“But, really, I just like horror. Not everything has some dark reason behind it.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw

“Is it really winning if everybody dies?”
― Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw

“Stupid girls run upstairs, stupid girls run upstairs," she's saying to herself, turning to pull Ben with her up the aluminum steps, Billie Jean just feet behind them”
― Stephen Graham Jones

“The Harvester was the rustling of autumn leaves, there one minute, gone the next.”
― Jolene Haley, Harrowed

“The final girl and the monster are two sides of one person. Think about it. One runs fast, and screams, and is resourceful, and fights for her friends. The other is slow, and implacable, and silent, and he kills, and is alone.'"
- Chrissy in "The Final Girl Support Group”
― Grady Hendrix

“We all become history at some point or another, right?”
― Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw

“When you're wearing slasher goggles, everything can look like a slasher.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, My Heart Is a Chainsaw

“¿Alguna vez te has preguntado quien cuenta las historias de miedo si el protagonista siempre muere?”
― Paula Peralta Pozanco, Sobre Dioses y Gula

“Por eso no lo dice de quien es el mensaje. No hacerlo le parte el corazón, pero es una fractura pequeña. Puede lidiar bastante bien con ese tipo de cortecitos.”
― Paula Peralta Pozanco, Sobre Dioses y Gula

“Despite their best efforts, however, they never encountered the Slasher.”
― Patrick Brode, The Slasher Killings: A Canadian Sex-Crime Panic, 1945-1946