History Creator / PatrickSenecal

His books tend to fall in one of two categories: Realistic thriller, mystery or suspense stories that usually follow a realistic train of thought, with detective solving a mystery or being on the hunt for a criminal; or supernatural horror stories with an edge of reality, with usually DenserAndWackier plots and greater amounts of BlackComedy. Senécal's characters range from [[MostWitersAreWriters writers]] to CEGEP teachers to detectives to psychiatrists to ricker folks. Most of these protagonists also live in Drummondville, Patriock Senécal's hometown.

* ''5150, rue des Ormes'' (''5150, Elms' Way''): University student Yannick Bérubé, when visiting the town he just moved into, falls off his bike when a cat crosses the street just before him. Tending to his wounds in the titular house, he finds a half-dead man upstairs but is caught by the resident family father, Jacques Beaulieu, and subsequently sequestered. What follows is a battle of wills as a weakened Yannick is forced to live with this family, as Jacques has taken all necessary precautions to never let anyone escape his house. Someday, Jacques approaches Yannick with a proposition: If Yannick beats Jacques at chess, he's free to go. Unfortunately, chess is the key motif behind Jacques' BlackAndWhiteInsanity, and with the white pieces he has never lost a game...
* ''Le passager'' (''The Passenger'')
* ''Sur le seuil'' (''Over the Threshhold''/''Evil Words'')
* ''Literature/{{Aliss}}''
* ''Les sept jours du talion'' (''Seven Days'')

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Patrick Senécal is a horror/mystery/suspense author from Quebec. His first novel, 5150, rue des Ormes, was published in 1994. However, his career really took off with hisz third novel, Sur le seuil. So far, he has published sixteen books, with a new one on the way; co-wrote the scripts for three film adaptations of his stories; penned the script for a web series called ''La reine rouge'' (''The Red Queen''); and contributed to many short story collections.

* ''5150, rue des Ormes'' (''5150, Elms' Way'')

Patrick Senécal has also helped writing the script for three [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptations]] of his books, and co-wrote a webseries named "La Reine rouge" (The Red Queen) detailing the life of one of his most iconic characters, Michelle Beaulieu.

Patrick Senécal is a horror/mystery/suspense author from Quebec. His first novel, 5150, rue des Ormes, was published in 1994. However, his career really took off with hisz third novel, Sur le seuil. So far, he has published sixteen books, with a new one on the way; co-wrote the scripts for three film adaptations of his stories; penned the script for a web series called ''La reine rouge'' (''The Red Queen'')

Patrick Senécal is a horror/mystery/suspense author from Quebec. His first novel, 5150, rue des Ormes, was published in 1994. However, his career really took off with hisz third novel, Sur le seuil. So far, he has published sixteen books:

* ''Sur le seuil'' (''Over the Threshhold'')

Patrick Senécal is a horror/mystery/suspense author from Quebec. His first novel, 5150, rue des Ormes, was published in 1994. However, his career really took off with Sur le seuil. So far, he has published sixteen books:

** Michelle Beaulieu debuts in 5150, rue des Ormes, and has a major role in Aliss, but is mentioned in at least one book between the two and in Le vide. Her StartOfDarkness and the nine years that passed between 5150, rue des Ormes and Aliss are detailed in the web series La reine rouge. Her latest appearance is in Senécal's latest book, ''Faims''.

** Michelle Beaulieu debuts in 5150, rue des Ormes, and has a major role in Aliss, but is mentioned in at least one book between the two and in Le vide. Her StartOfDarkness and the nine years that passed between 5150, rue des Ormes and Aliss are detailed in the web series La reine rouge.

** Bone's and Chair's basement in ''{{Aliss}}'' has a lot of vivisected corpses hanging about.

* TheBadGuyWins: Plenty of times. Yannick escapes from the Beaulieu family after Jacques has gone catatonic, but is found days later and castrated by Michelle, making him catatonic as well.

** BiggerBad Malphas is never defeated and hhe will keep living near Saint-Trailouin for twenty years still. Thankfully, the same cannot be said for [[BigBad Rupert Archlax Sr.]]

** The less we say about Thomas Rot the better. But to those who want to know, [[spoiler:having a cult priest insert a demon into you when he was a newborn baby immediately puts it into this category]].

* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Jacques Beaulieu, the enatgonist of 5150 rue des Ormes, firmly believes this and makes it his mission to kill anyone he considers an "unjust" (with a black morality). He also believes himself to be a "just" (with a white morality). At the end, [[spoiler:he kills his youngest daughter in an impulse]], which makes him an unjust (that victim was innocent), and thus goes catatonic.

** Invoked with Malphas; [[WordOfGod Patrick Senécal has said]] that he can go the extra mile because the series is more comedic, in contrast to the serious horror contained in many of his other works. As a result, Malphas contains a heabvier dose of Narm.

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In many reviews, Patrick Senécal has been compared to Creator/StephenKing. However, a quick look at both show that the Quebecer author's works tend to be much [[BloodierAndGorier gorier]] and sexually explicit than the famous American author's.

** In Quinze minutes, Johnny Net, who helps people finding their "fifteen minutes of fame" through the Internet, has his clients pass a few tests which let him judge their intelligence and level of culture. It's implied he helps everyone get their "fifteen minutes", but the resulting product is as intelligent as the client. Thus we get a woman "reviewing" (more like "praising") crappy films on Internet while dressed in revealing or skimpy clothes.

* TooDumbToLive: The stance taken by the more cynical main characters regarding a large part of humanity. Although the one who believes this trope the most is Maxime Lavoie. Aware of all the horrifying things that happen in the world, he tries to enlighten people and make them think about the situations that need to be denounced. He soon realizes people would rather watch tasteless crap, stupid soaps and even stupider reality shows, than care about the rest of the world and its problems. This general indifference sickens him, and multiple encounters with the horrors of mankind [[StartOfDarkness lead Maxime into wishing mankind would just disappear]]. Thus he sells off his shares and creates a reality show where everyone would have a chance at realizing their greatest dream. As he figured, most people wished for selfish things. [[spoiler:In the end, his scheme leads to many depressed people who applied for his show to grab firearms and, during the final episode of the show's second season, Maxime tells all these depressed people to grab guns and shoot everyone around them. That's how Living To The Max leads to the death of over 1,000 people.]]

** Michelle Beaulieu debuts in 5150, rue des Ormes, and has a major role in Aliss, but is mentioned in at least one book between the two and in Le vide.

Patrick Senécal is a Quebecer horror/mystery/suspense author. His first novel, 5150, rue des Ormes, was published in 1994. However, his career really took off with Sur le seuil. So far, he has published sixteen books:

* WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou: In ''5150, rues des Ormes'', Jacques Beaulieu repeatedly justifies his abuse of Yannick this way.

* MisanthropeSupreme: [[spoiler:Maxime Lavoie, all the way. Organizes the deaths of over 1,000 people, mostly depressed, jaded people, but also a ton of innocent people.]]