Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation - the roads often closed in winter - my stories tended toward the ghostly and the creepily suspenseful right from the get-go. — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
What I see as the particularly exciting prospect for writing horror fiction as we go forward is setting stories in more internal landscapes than external ones, mapping out the mind as the home for scary things instead of the house… — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
“All my life I have been pursued by the black dogs of unaccountable gloom” — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
There's something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live. — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
Theres something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live. — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
“And this is the only really startling thing about the evil of the world: not that so much of it exists, but that nobody… — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
Sometimes people close a door because they’re trying to figure out a way to get you to knock. — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
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… — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
“Though it's with you at every moment, it's always something of a surprise to discover that you can be at once alive and alone.” — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me 'Canada's scariest writer,' and I love that. — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
If the hairs on my neck stand up while Im writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock. — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
“Darkness isn't the matter from which the Antichrist was formed, but intelligence. Foreknowledge.” — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
