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{{quote|''Inside the mailbox is absolutely nothing.''
''Nothing after nothing came bursting out.''
|''[[Mother 3]]'', during the [[Mushroom Samba]] sequence}}
{{quote|''"'''Real''' terror is not the sight of death. It is the fear of death. What is the fear of death? Terror of the unknown."''|'''Pisha''', ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines|Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines]]''}}
{{quote|'''Watson:''' ''I ought to be more case-hardened after my Afghan experiences. I saw my own comrades hacked to pieces at Maiwand without losing my nerve.''
'''Holmes:''' ''I can understand. There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.''
|[[Sherlock Holmes|"A Study in Scarlet"]]}}
{{quote|'''Harry:''' We were scared. It was like being lost: very young again, with the dark, and lost. There was no ... thing ... to be ... frightened of, but ...
'''Edna:''' WE WERE FRIGHTENED ... and there was nothing.
|'''Edward Albee''', ''A Delicate Balance''.}}
{{quote|''"Do you know what the most frightening thing in the world is? Nothing."''|'''Ethros Demon, Corrupter of Souls''', [[Angel]], "I've Got You Under My Skin (1x14)"}}
{{quote|''"There is neither [[Our Ghosts Are Different|ghost]] of [[Blue Blood|earl]] nor ghost of countess in that room, there is no ghost there at all; but worse, far worse."<br />
"The worst of all the things that haunt poor mortal man," said I; "and that is, in all its nakedness - Fear! Fear that will not have light nor sound, that will not bear with reason, that deafens and darkens and overwhelms."''
|'''[[H. G. Wells]]''', ''The Red Room''.}}
{{quote|''You see, there are three kinds of horror games - first there's the kind where you're in a dark room and a guy in a spooky mask jumps out of a cupboard going "ABLOOGY WOOGY WOO". That would be your [[Doom|Doom 3]]. Then there's the kind where the guy in the spooky mask isn't in the cupboard, but right behind you, and you just know he's gonna go "ABLOOGY WOOGY WOO" at some point, but he doesn't, and you're getting more and more tense, but you don't want to turn around because he might stick his cock in your eye. That would be your [[Silent Hill 2]]. And then there are games where the guy in the spooky mask goes "ABLOOGY WOOGY WOO" while standing on the far side of a brightly lit room before walking slowly towards you, plucking a violin before smacking you in the face with a t-bone steak. That would be your [[Dead Space (video game)|Dead Space]]. You see, [[Nothing Is Scarier|the second one]] is best, because your imagination is doing all the work, all a good horror game needs to do is hand you a piece of sandpaper and shout encouragement as you vigorously massage your own undercarriage.''|'''Yazhtee''', ''[[Zero Punctuation]] (Specifically, the [[Amnesia: The Dark Descent|Amnesia the Dark Descent]] [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/2092-Amnesia-The-Dark-Descent review])''}}▼
▲{{quote|''You see, there are three kinds of horror games - first there's the kind where you're in a dark room and a guy in a spooky mask jumps out of a cupboard going "ABLOOGY WOOGY WOO". That would be your [[Doom|Doom 3]]. Then there's the kind where the guy in the spooky mask isn't in the cupboard, but right behind you, and you just know he's gonna go "ABLOOGY WOOGY WOO" at some point, but he doesn't, and you're getting more and more tense, but you don't want to turn around because he might stick his cock in your eye. That would be your [[Silent Hill 2]]. And then there are games where the guy in the spooky mask goes "ABLOOGY WOOGY WOO" while standing on the far side of a brightly lit room before walking slowly towards you, plucking a violin before smacking you in the face with a t-bone steak. That would be your [[Dead Space (video game)|Dead Space]]. You see, [[Nothing Is Scarier|the second one]] is best, because your imagination is doing all the work, all a good horror game needs to do is hand you a piece of sandpaper and shout encouragement as you vigorously massage your own undercarriage.''|'''Yazhtee''', ''[[Zero Punctuation]] (Specifically, the [[Amnesia: The
{{quote|Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,
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And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you' - here I opened wide the door; -
Darkness there, and nothing more.
|''' [[Edgar Allan Poe]]''', ''The Raven''}}
{{quote|Let me say this: if you have killed one monster, you have killed them all. They all go down the same. You pump them full of lead, or burn them with fire, or pray them to oblivion, or magick them to another dimension, or laser them into vapor, but they all die in the end, and if you can pack the heat, you can spank the monster. A shooting gallery is not the essence of horror, and neither is just being gobbled right and left, or surprized with a sudden 'boo!'. Real horror, real anxiety comes from waiting. It comes from expectation, from suspense. In the meeting with a monster, either you win, or you die. You beat the monster or it beats you. This can be drawn out, or samurai quick, but it is the end, the climax. The thing that makes the monster is the foreplay before hand. Sex and death have always gone together in most human cultures, and one reason is that they work the same...foreplay and climax.
{{quote|'''Magister Hickory:''' The Master has been playing with us for a full week now. Lights on and off, odd noises, awful smells. And that was a glimpse of the Beast.
'''Thornmallow:''' But I saw nothing.
'''Register Oakbend:''' Which is worse--seeing or not seeing?
|''[[Wizard's Hall]]''}}
{{quote|'''Josh:''' Man, if she's gonna get us, I wish she would just get us...I-I can't take this stress!}}▼
▲{{quote|'''Josh:''' Man, if she's gonna get us, I wish she would just get us...I-I can't take this stress!
{{quote|'''Megan:''' I sat back quietly, all week long, watching. While the two of you were slowly eaten alive by your own fear. And that's the best revenge there is.|''Both in the [[Drake and Josh]] episode "Megan's Revenge"''}}▼
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|''Both in the [[Drake and Josh]] episode "Megan's Revenge"''}}
{{quote|"Now you might be asking yourself why I'm not allowing you see who I am Lucius. If you think about it, I'm sure you will recall the power of the fear of the unknown, from your time hiding your face behind that white mask, [[Sarcasm Mode|all the while under the Imperius of course.]] You're frightened of me now, and will be even more frightened of me in the future. [[Paranoia Fuel|I've proven I can reach out and take you at anytime, no matter where you are, from your magnificent home to your private club.]]"|''[[Harry Potter and the
{{quote|"When your movie is [[Found Footage Films|found footage style]] and you want people to believe that [[Urban
''[Eerie and dark footage of a bedroom with backyard objects laying around. It very, very slowly pans to a hooded figure with a white bag on his head. It turns to the camera.]''
''[Cut to:]''
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