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.

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

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

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.

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.

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