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Patrick Senécal


Photo : Karine Patry		 Patrick Senécal was born in Drummondville in 1967. With an undergrad degree in French literature from the Université de Montréal, he has taught literature, film and theatre at Cégep de Drummondville for several years. An enthusiast for artistic forms that use suspense, fantasy and horror, he published his first horror novel in 1994, 5150 rue des Ormes, a book of sustained emotions and tension. This was followed the next year by Le Passager, a novel of almost intolerable suspense. In the spring of 1997, the Théâtre de La Licorne produced his first play : Les Aventures de l'inspecteur Hector.
His third novel, Sur le seuil, published in 1999, was unanimously acclaimed by critics, and subsequently made into a film by Éric Tessier. Sur le seuil, the movie, was one of the major events of the fall 2003 season and the American rights for a remake have been bought by the Miramax group.
His fourth and fifth novels, Aliss, a real cult classic, and Les Sept Jours du talion, a remarkably intense dark thriller, were also both very well received by the press as well as the reading public. This has made Patrick Senécal one of the most beloved and read writers in Quebec.

  • About Patrick Senécal
  • Bibliography
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About Patrick Senécal

This young author has obviously done his homework when it comes to writing horror novels. Not only does he fully understand the genre, but he is also in full control of its bells and whistles...
Ici

 Patrick Senécal writes very effectively. Action, rhythm, grabbing the reader's mind are more important to him than any stylistic flourish. So much the better for us.
Nuit blanche

 Without imitating King's style, Patrick Senécal successfully draws the reader in as forcefully as the master of American horror.
Québec français

 [...] A supreme quality, the author goes to the limits of his subject, with many morbid details.
Lectures

 A horror thriller this well mastered has only been written so far by a few foreign pens.
Le Nouvelliste


Bibliography

1. Novels

  • 5150, rue des Ormes. Novel. Laval : Guy Saint-Jean éditeur, 1994. Out of print.
  • Le Passager. Novel. Laval : Guy Saint-Jean éditeur, 1995. Out of print.
    • Le Passager, new version : Lévis : Alire, (Romans 066), 2003.
  • Sur le seuil. Novel. Beauport : Alire, (Romans 015), 1998.
    • Reprinted Alire, trade paperback, 2003.
    • French european version: Bragelonne.
  • Aliss. Novel. Beauport : Alire, (Romans 039), 2000.
  • Les Sept Jours du talion. Novel. Lévis : Alire (Romans 059), 2002.
  • Oniria. Novel Lévis : Alire, (Romans 076), 2004.
  • Le Vide. Novel. Lévis : Alire, (GF), 2007.

2. Short stories

  • "Ressac," in Roberval fantastique, Roberval : Ashem fictons, 1998.
  • "La Source," in Fenêtre secrète sur Stephen King 15, 1999.
  • "Eaux troubles," in Fenêtre secrète sur Stephen King 16, 1999.
  • "Nuit d'ancre," in Solaris 133, 2000.
  • "Retrouvailles," in Alibis 1, 2001.
  • "Équilibre," in Solaris 156, 2005.


3. Awards

  • 2001 Boréal Award : Aliss
  • 2004 Prix du public - Salon du Livre de la Côte Nord Award : Sur le seuil
  • 2007 Masterton Award : Sur le seuil
  • 2007 Saint-Pacôme Award : Le Vide