Saturday, July 18, 2015

Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Eliciting fear

Author Andrew Pyper talks writing, Festival of Words
Andrew Pyper autographs a book for one of his fans on
July 18, 2015 at the Saskatchewan Festival of Words.
Lisa Goudy/Times-Herald

By Lisa Goudy

Andrew Pyper is a master of inciting fear in his supernatural thriller books, so long as he doesn't run into zombies.

"In the more mythical sense, I'm really scared by zombies and I know they're everywhere right now. They're kind of the monster du jour," he said while sitting in Crescent Park on Saturday afternoon.

"The idea of people being transformed slowly - I'm of the slow zombie school, not the fast zombie - because it's the idea of, 'Here they come' and the relentless of these lurching, undead things. They're terrifying."

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