Your melancholy. Or depression. Along with nine-tenths of the afflictions I've studied, diagnosed, attempted to treat. Call them whatever you like, but they're just different names for loneliness. That's what lets the darkness in. That's what you have to fight.

We need to kind of refresh our fear in order to refresh our understanding of how a safe place works.

If the hairs on my neck stand up while Im writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.

Psychological horror is more interesting to me than the explicitly physical.

To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.

I just hated the law. I wasnt cut out for it. I couldnt imagine spending my life doing that, so I quit before I began.

I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me Canadas scariest writer, and I love that.