Erin Mason asked Andrew Pyper:

Was there anything in particular that lead you to write paranormal/ horror stories about the battle between good and evil? Your story The Demonologist stayed with me for quite some time after reading it. It was haunting and creepy, where most horror stories fall short.

Andrew Pyper Thank you so much for saying so. I think what draws me to the supernatural more than anything else is how it dramatically and emotionally explains human behavior that science and psychology and psychiatry has claimed to have explained away. But I am not so sure. Or, put another way, I do not see science and the supernatural as opposed as others do. They are two ways of explaining things, but in many cases they provide coherent mythologies that run alongside each other instead of one canceling the other out. This is all a complicated way of saying that if I can bring back a piece of mythology that modern rationalism has claimed to have banished, and make that piece believable, at least potentially, I feel like I am expanding the breadth of human experience. Bringing a little magic and danger back to the real.

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