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I'd read 'Paradise Lost' as an undergrad at university but remembered little about it. No, not true: I remembered few details, but carried with me with the persuasive arguments and pitiable dilemma of its arguable protagonist, Satan.

~Andrew Pyper

Topics: About Argument Carried Details Dilemma Few Little Lost Me Paradise Persuasive Protagonist Read Remembered Satan True University

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Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes one's fear, but the human being who has contact with it.

~Andrew Pyper

Topics: Being Contact Defined Fear Horror Human Human Being Me Thing Who

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

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I just hated the law. I wasn't cut out for it. I couldn't imagine spending my life doing that, so I quit before I began.

~Andrew Pyper

Topics: Before Began Cut Doing Hated Imagine Just Law Life My Life Out Quit Spending I Quit

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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

Topics: Among Call Canada Community Enjoy Love Me Other Scariest Special Thriller Writer Writers I Love

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

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Topics: Figure Get Hairs Kind Neck Reader Same Shock Stand Stand Up Up While Will Writing

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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

Topics: Architecture Because Closed Gothic Isolation Naturally Often Perhaps Relative Right Roads Stories Toward Town Winter

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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.

~Andrew Pyper

Topics: Abandoned Amusement End Exciting External Fiction Forward Go Home Horror House Instead Internal Landscapes Lane Mind More Out Park Particularly Prospect Scary See Setting Stories Than Things Writing I See

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

~Andrew Pyper

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

~Andrew Pyper

Topics: Away Contemplate Fool Foot Just Miles Monsters Only Our Outside Peripheral Set Someplace Than Vision Would

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Author

Born: January 4th, 1968

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