Creepy Quotes and Scary Sayings To Give you a Fright

Count on the Vidicus review team to provide you the very best creepy quotes and scary sayings to keep you up at night.

I'm gonna make you eat this gold and then I'm gonna sink your ass into the ocean!

A good selection of herbs and spices helps make any kind of meat go down.

Nightmares will come pouring out of Hell when the Devil gets desperate.

What if the spiritual world is the job and the living world the vacation?

Those that don't go mad every once in a while, eventually go mad permanently.

Homes don't always like all tenants. They retaliate in whatever way they can.

There's a reason so many people like Halloween. The real reason goes unsaid by many.

Some spirits possess the living to feed the addictions they had while alive. Do you know anyone who eats a lot, drinks a lot, or smokes a lot?

Ghosts have been humans. Demons never have. That's the difference between being scared and being threatened.

Sometimes your imagination plays tricks on you; sometimes it doesn't. Knowing the difference can save your life . . . or your soul.

There are bad spirits on the other side, just as there are bad people in this world.

Demons are constantly looking for new recruits, both in the living world and the spiritual.

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5 of the World’s Scariest Travel Destinations

Love travelling and mystery? Then why not combine the two with these five destinations which are known to be the scariest in the world.

Sleepy Hollow, New York

If you love Washington Irving’s classic tale of the Headless Horseman who is searching for his lost head, then be sure to give the town of Tarrytown, New York, a visit. Just over one hour from NYC in the Hudson Valley, you can visit the church’s burial ground and listen to the story read aloud inside the church itself. You can take a lantern tour of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, where Irving is buried, but be careful, you might even run into the horseman himself!

Transylvania

When visiting Romania, a stop in Transylvania cannot be missed. Bran Castle, or Dracula’s Castle, obviously has a connection to the real-life prince Vlad the Impaler, and hosts an annual Halloween party for those not afraid of the legend. Other impressive castles linked with the prince include Poenari Fortress and Corvin Castle.

London

Even though it’s an international capital, London can be eerie with its mist and fog. You can take a tour of Jack the Ripper’s trail through Whitechapel, then visit The Ten Bells pub where his victims passed time before meeting their fate. Then, on the banks of the Thames River, you can explore the Tower of London where many royal beheadings took place including Henry VIII’s wife Anne Boleyn. They say spirits of the executed still walk the grounds. In northern London’s Highgate Cemetery there have been sightings of phantoms, and even a vampire, wandering among the tombstones.

New Orleans

New Orleans is named the most haunted city in America, with its Voodoo, vampires and ghosts just about everywhere. It has been the location for many movies including Interview with the Vampire, True Blood, and American Horror Story, and you can take a ghost tour to hear about the atrocities which took place at the LaLaurie mansion. When in the French Quarter, visit the haunted bars and pubs, take a peek inside a voodoo shop, and take a walk through St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 which is the burial place of “voodoo queen” Marie Laveau.

La Isla de las Muñecas (Island of the Dolls), Mexico

If you are visiting Mexico City and the UNESCO World Heritage site of Xochimilco, don’t forget to check out this creepy destination. Apparently the Island of the Dolls is home to the spirit of a young girl who drowned offshore, and a recluse who lived on the island believed collecting filthy dolls and missing body parts would appease her spirit. Visitors to the island have actually said the dolls move, blink their eyes, and even whisper. Now how scary is that?

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Two young adult horror novels worth checking out

Although many horror tales can be pretty graphic and gruesome, they are by no means a no-go area for young adults. As books like that the Twilight series have shown, there is an appetite for good young adult horror novels. Here are two worth checking out.

Half-Resurrection Blues by Daniel Jose Older

In a futuristic New York city, the living and the dead mingle and it is up to the New York Council of the Dead to regulate it all. Carlos Delacruz is one of the council’s agents, but he is the living embodiment of the very entities he is pursuing. Carlos himself is a half-dead inbetweener with a sketchy memory about how he came to walk that fine line. He doesn’t remember suffering or how he came to have a foot in both camps. That all changes, though, when he meets another inbetweener, although one with sinister motives.

This half-dead sorcerer wants to throw open the gateway between the living dead and has already assembled an army of undead which he plans to overrun the city with. Carlos’s job is to stop him, but in trying to, he discovers something about himself.

Minion by LA Banks

Damali Richards is one of the prize artists for Warriors of Light Records. She is Spoken Word star, but hides a dark, nocturnal secret. When she’s not wowing audiences or recording new tracks, Damali is out hunting vampires and other creatures of the underworld. However, her worlds start to collide when a series of killings seemingly carried out by vampires targets other Warriors of the Light artists. Soon, she realises she is not dealing with any ordinary vampire here and Damali quickly learns that she too is on their hitlist. Can she battle these dark forces and save her own soul before it’s too late?

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Horror fiction: How the genre rose from the dead

Book stores are reporting a spike in sales of horror books in the last few years and it appears that nostalgia has a big part to play in this recent resurgence of the genre.

The public’s appetite for this kind of nostalgic horror has been whetted, it seems by TV shows and movies.

The huge success of Netflix TV show Stranger Things is being credited with reawakening readers’ interest in horror fiction. The show is set in the 1980s and features a group of kids encounter, well, strange things, such as supernatural episodes, aliens and other pretty creepy stuff.

Similarly, the remake of IT, a movie based on a Stephen King novel, has led a whole new generation to discover the work of the godfather of horror writing.

British book chain Waterstones reported that they had seen a 33% growth in their sales of horror fiction. In a report in the Daily Telegraph, Waterstones horror buyer Kate McHale credits Stranger Things with that surge, saying that the show has “tapped into that 80s horror nostalgia and created an incredible reader resurgence in the genre.”

The remake of IT grossed over $700million, which is another indication that the genre is in rude health and that King’s work has an enduring appeal.

The appetite for the more supernatural style of horror thriller is certainly reflected in the popularity of books such as The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley, which was named book of the year in 2016 at the British Book Awards.

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Three things you didn’t know about Dracula

Dracula is one of the most famous and influential horror and vampire books of all time. But there are a few things you probably didn’t know about the Bram Stoker classic. Here is a rundown of just a few things you didn’t know about Dracula.

Stoker was inspired by a short story

One thing you might not know about Dracula is that the inspiration for the book came from a short story that was written as part of competition between Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley and John Polidori. Polidori wrote a piece called The Vampyre which inspired Stoker to write Dracula.

Dracula made a deal with the devil for his powers

In Stoker’s novel, the character of Van Helsing tells us that Dracula got his vampire powers by making a deal with the devil. As he is the lord of vampires and the father of all other vampires, it does make a good deal of sense that Dracula would have had to have made a deal with some devilish force to gain all his powers and dominion over night.

Stoker wrote Dracula after Jack the Ripper

Bram Stoker began writing Dracula in 1890, just two years after Jack the Ripper had been terrorising London. There are links between Stoker’s writing and the murders that Jack the Ripper committed, making the tale of the vampire even more horrifying for those links.

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