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

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

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

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

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.

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