Craig Davidson remembers his late friend and fellow author Andrew Pyper, who passed away at the age of 56. Pyper was a celebrated Canadian writer known for his literary thriller novels that spanned genres from gothic horror to dark techno-thrillers.
Andrew Pyper , a Toronto-based writer who earned critical acclaim for his literary thriller novels, has died. Over the past 25 years, Pyper became one of the most renowned writers working in Canada and a giant of the horror genre. His bestselling novels include Since the news of his passing, Canadian authors and readers alike have shared stories of all the different ways Pyper touched their lives, whether through his work or through his palpable commitment to the literary community.
author Craig Davidson joins host Elamin Abdelmahmoud to share such stories, and pay tribute to his late friend.: What's really struck me about the outpouring of love has been the vantage point of stories…. It just seemed like he was really beautifully enmeshed with a lot of people. You got to know Andrew Pyper personally. Before that, you were an admirer of his work. What do you think made him a unique figure in Canadian literature?, there's a gothic feel to it. There's elements of a ghost story. One of Andrew's, I think, favourite books is by Peter Straub, and there's a crime element, there's a legal element, a Dickensian element. And he went on to write books in the horror sphere, but then he'd stop and write a book like, I think, was writing things that I would consider to be dark thrillers, you know what I mean? Big ideas, big hooks, propulsive stories. And then the last part of his career, where he was writing under a pen name — some of the books still to come — they were dark techno-thrillers. But the throughline was always the literary-ness of his work. I think because of its dark themes and tones, Andrew's work … was probably seen as horror. But it was so well-written and literary, and its literary merit so obvious that critics, even if they want to malign that kind of genre — which sometimes they do — it was impossible to do with Andrew's wor
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