His latest work is his first true horror novel (in that it contains undeniably supernatural elements), and it displays the author’s total commitment to the genre.Īt the risk of sounding academic or reductive, Pyper’s work is infused with persistent anxiety about the place of traditional masculinity – with its codes of duty, restraint, loyalty, even chivalry – in a rootless, postmodern world that rejects notions of objective morality, truth, and identity. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life, Stephen King wrote, “I think that a generation’s weird fiction, which has always been mainstream literature’s first cousin, gives us valuable information about the society in which it appears.” King went on to suggest that weird fiction’s “valuable information” reveals much about the deepest and often unspoken fears of the society in which that fiction is created and read.Īs one of the few literary authors in Canada willing to muddy his hands in the thriller and suspense genres, Andrew Pyper has been delivering valuable information on the country’s fears for over a decade now. In his introduction to Michel Houellebecq’s book-length essay, H.P.
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