12 of the scariest lines from literature

"Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!"
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"My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape."
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"Poison them, drown them, bash them on the head. Got any chloroform? I don't care how you kill the little beasts. Just do it, and do it NOW!"
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“But no animal escapes the cruel knife in the end.”
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“I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.”

"I can make bad things happen to people who annoy me. I can make them hurt if I want to."
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“I started from my sleep with horror; a cold dew covered my forehead, my teeth chattered, and every limb became convulsed: when, by the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window shutters, I beheld the wretch — the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me.”
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“I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat.”
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“I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled …”
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"It's you that ought to be lying there in the church crypt, not her. It's you who ought to be dead, not Mrs. de Winter."
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“A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone."
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“Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I’m not gonna hurt ya. I’m just going to bash your brains in.”
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