"Matheson gets closer to his characters than anyone else in the field of fantasy today. ... You don’t read a Matheson …"

"I haven't had this much fun since the rats ate my baby sister."

"Horror is the removal of masks."

"Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk."

"Mothers sometimes are overly possessive, but not all children allow themselves to be possessed."

"I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times."

"At first, when the shower curtains parted, the steam obscured the face. Then she did see it there—just a face, peerin…"

"That’s the way girls were—they always laughed. Because they were bitches."

"Funny...how we take it for granted that we know all there is to know about another person, just because we see them f…"

"Magic—that's just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn't so very long ago that people were saying that …"