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Brian McNaughton
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“Vampires, like virgins or priests, are things that women believe in. We must never fail to humor them in such matters.”
Brian McNaughton (1935–2004) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Child of the Night" in 100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories (1995) edited by Robert Weinberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz, and Martin H. Greenberg
“I believe that we are soft creatures in a world with some very hard edges. It's remarkable that we survive at all, much less do high deeds or write great music. I think … tension … is a condition of our existence, and I do my best to depict it.”
Brian McNaughton (1935–2004) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An Interview with World Fantasy Award Finalist Brian McNaughton" by Jeff VanderMeer, in The Ministry of Whimsy (1998)
“I had always been impatient with superstition. If I ever met a God, I would apologize for disbelieving in Him, but not until then.”
Brian McNaughton (1935–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For all their laughter, ghouls are a dull lot. Hunger is the fire in which they burn, and it burns hotter than the hunger for power over men or for knowledge of the gods in a crazed mortal. It vaporizes delicacy and leaves behind only a slag of anger and lust. They see their fellows as impediments to feeding, to be mauled and shrieked at when the mourners go home. They are seldom alone, not through love of one another's company, but because a lone ghoul is suspected of stealing food. Their copulation is so hasty that distinctions of sex and identity are often ignored.”
Brian McNaughton (1935–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I was three or four, an older kid tried to scare me away from a barn full of dangerous junk by telling me the Bogeyman lived there. I spent a lot of time crawling around beneath rusted machinery and through barbed wire looking for the Bogeyman, but no luck. I've always loved a good scare, perhaps because the "Oz" and "Alice" books, the first things my mother read to me, are pretty scary stuff for a toddler. They had some wonderfully horrifying radio shows in those days, too — Suspense, Escape, and Quiet, Please. I still regret that I was listening to Charlie McCarthy when Orson Welles terrorized the country with his Martian invasion . . . As my membership in the Horror Writers Association attests, I don't mind the label.”
Brian McNaughton (1935–2004) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An Interview with World Fantasy Award Finalist Brian McNaughton" by Jeff VanderMeer, in The Ministry of Whimsy (1998)