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

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

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

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.

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.