Sometimes people close a door because they’re trying to figure out a way to get you to knock.

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.

Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes ones fear, but the human being who has contact with it.

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

Theres something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.

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

Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set foot in.