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1 " People think too much when they're alone. "
― Al Sarrantonio , 100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories
2 " It is always Dark. Light only hides the Darkness. —DANIEL KIAN MC KIERNAN "
― Al Sarrantonio , 999: Twenty-Nine Original Tales of Horror and Suspense
3 " twenty years after McCauley’s effort, I concluded that it was time to prove, once and for all, that the horror and suspense genre is a serious literary one. I had other reasons "
4 " Your organs are all failing, but your cancer...well, your cancer is doing great. "
― Al Sarrantonio
5 " Sometimes all you had to do was breathe to ruin somebody’s else’s day. "
― Al Sarrantonio ,
6 " Children picked up things on a different level than adults. They hadn’t spent much time building up defense mechanisms and rationalizations for all the shitty things that happen in the world. Kids take everything straight, no chaser. It’s later on we all start bullshitting ourselves. Dominic "
7 " Dangerous Visions, which had, almost single-handedly, changed the way readers thought about science fiction. Since Ellison had been at least partially successful "
8 " I have nothing I ever wanted, after I had everything. "
― Al Sarrantonio , Halloweenland
9 " You hold in your hands a very special book. It contains one hundred carnival rides of terror. You must remember: horror can come from any direction. It can be as subtle as a spider web's caress, or as vicious as the drop of an axe blade. It can be grim as the reaper, or as sardonic as, well, Sardonicous. It can wear the garments of science or superstition; can be dressed in the trappings of fantasy or the fancy-free. But always it will terrify. And one of the bluntest of its instruments is the short-short story, one of the most difficult of literary devices to master. Not only must each word be perfect-but each comma and period. Nothing can be wasted. In the hands of master executioners, like the authors who fill this book-it can be deadly. So... Die-and die again- one hundred times... "
10 " He was going to hell in the old hand basket, and he decided that maybe he would take someone with him. "
