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.

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

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

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

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

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.