As much as I am fascinated with the stereotypical narcissistic serial killer, it’s the unsuspecting, truly friendly person next door who you smile and wave to as you pass by that are the scariest. They are the ones who hide in plain sight. The ones who don’t get caught because no one suspects that they could do anything like that. It’s the ones you don’t know whom you should fear. – Brianna Joy
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He who fights with monsters should take care that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. – Friedrich Nietzsche
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Even a wooden coffin and six feet of earth can’t hold back a story if it needs to be told. – Anonymous
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To us forever are the gates of heaven shut. For who shall open them to us again? We go on for all time abhorred by all; a blot on the face of God’s sunshine; an arrow in the side of Him who died for man. – Bram Stoker, Dracula
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Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence…. Someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never. – Franz Kafka
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She was of divine stock, not of men, in the fore part a lion, in the hinder a serpent, and in the midst a goat, breathing forth in terrible wise the might of blazing fire. – Homer’s Illiad
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From those that go bump in the night to ones that offer hope, mythical creatures and monsters are abound in fiction. You can find them in anything from horror to science fiction and fantasy. But where do our ideas for creatures to scare or inspire come from? Throughout October, Writing Roots will be delving into…
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Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? – Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
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When a unicorn is slain, men have destroyed again the image of beauty that they seek. – Nicholas Stuart Gray
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