Andrew Pyper
Andrew Pyper
Andrew Pyperis a prize-winning Canadian author...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth4 January 1968
CountryCanada
architecture closed ghostly gothic naturally perhaps relative stories toward town
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.
loneliness fighting names
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.
interesting horror psychological
Psychological horror is more interesting to me than the explicitly physical.
reader
To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.
horror provoking contact
Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes ones fear, but the human being who has contact with it.
feet vision fool
Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set foot in.
cutting law quitting
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.
dark desire needs
Theres something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.
writing hair necks
If the hairs on my neck stand up while Im writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.
community special canada
I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me Canadas scariest writer, and I love that.
doors people trying
Sometimes people close a door because they’re trying to figure out a way to get you to knock.
order understanding safe
We need to kind of refresh our fear in order to refresh our understanding of how a safe place works.
hairs neck reader
If the hairs on my neck stand up while I'm writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.
abandoned amusement exciting external home horror house instead internal landscapes lane mapping mind prospect scary setting stories
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 at the end of the lane or lakeside campground or abandoned amusement park.