History Creator / PatrickSenecal

* Canon Welding: Later books tend to do this; Patrick Senécal tends to insert small references to previous works.

** The eponymous website from Hell.Com is mentioned in ''Il y aura des morts''.

* ''Il y aura des morts'' (''There Will Be Deaths''): Criminal mind games occur in Drummondville as the local police department tries to find a murderer.

** Martin Charron comes out of Hell.Com without any repercussions for his actions, and the website itself lives on without even a scratch.

** While the heads of Hell.Com count as[[GreaterScopeVillain greater-score villains]], Martin Charron is the closest to an actual Big Bad for the book. Pulls Daniel Saul into the titular website, has killed multiple people ([[spoiler:By ordering hits on them through the site or by himself during one of its VIP events]]), and eventually pulls Daniel's son Simon into the site's activities.

** Hell.Com: Daniel finds his son Simon, but gets into so much trouble with Hell.Com and its members during his search for Simon that he becomes one of their victims.

** Hell.Com: Simon is safe and will be staying with Marie, the new head of Saul Inc., while Daniel is captured by the site, tortured and likely killed during one of the site's events. And of course, the website lives on, with absolutely no harm done to it whatsoever, and it will keep on organizing events where rich people can brutalize, rape or murder other, less wealthy people freely.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Mathis Loz was bullied in school.... he proceeds to find magical ways to murder his aggressors.

** Most present in ''L'autre reflet'', where most of the first 100 pages are about the whole creative process behind writing a book, ad then seeing the marketing, reviews and public opinion unfold, followed by the stress of making a new book afterwards.

** Faims: The crime spree is solved, the killer is caught, and the circus did in fact push the guy to act upon his desires. Unfortunately, the discovery of the killere's motive brings a whole lot of new, horrifying secrets into the detective's family, secrets that might break the family apart at any moment. And they all hide these dark, terrible secrets behind facades.
** Hell.Com: Simon is safe and will be staying with Marie, the new head of Saul Inc., while Daniel is captured by the site, tortured and likely killed during one of the site's events. And of course, the website lives on, with absolutely no harm done to it whatsoever, and it will keep on organizig events where rich people can brutalize, rape or murder other, less wealthy people freely.

** Somehow subverted in Oniria. [[spoiler: The dream-people don't actually speak languages that their dreamer doesn't know.]]

* AuthorAvatar: Played straight and deconstructed HARD in ''Sur le seuil''. Thomas Roy is described as a best-selling horror author whose books have been adapted into films, is famous outside of Quebec as well, and writes ultra-realistic horror stories. However, the scariest moments in his books are all based on real events that happened in the book's world and he feels extreme guilt because he feels like he's making a profit off human tragedy. But that's not what makes it a deconstruction: In fact, while Thomas Roy is a main character in the book, he's not the main character, but a victim! Sent into a hospital's psychiatric ward, mutilated and catatonic. Not the sort of treatment author avatars usually get... [[NightmareFuel And then we learn about his condition, his past and the rest...]]

* ''L'autre reflet'' (''The Other Reflection''): Yet to be released. An author, during research for his next novel, begins visiting an incarcerated woman and develops a relationship with her.

** Aliss: Bittersweet. Aliss is exiled from Wonderland, but manages to recover from her experience, find a husband and is expecting a baby. Later on, she tries to find the entrance to Wonderland again but cannot, concluding that it's because she "isn't running anymore". She doesn't know if she should be satisfied or depressed.

** ''Torture, luxure et lecture'' (''Tortures, Sinners and Readers''): The fall semester continues at Malphas College with the arrival of a new teacher, Michel Condé. He soon suggests to open a reading club, and the meetings are to be held in one of the abandoned classroom. However, shortly after this club begins, the members start showing signs of bizarre problems directly related to the exerpts they read during said club, in the abandoned classroom. Julien finds out that it may have to do with the thing in the basement...

* ''Quinze minutes'' (''Fifteen minutes''): Want to become famous on the Web? Come to the Johnny Net is your guy! Totally not a jaded person with a disdain of stupidity, Johnny directs his little business where he finds the (frequently outrageous or ridiculous) ideas that will let his clients rack up the views on sites like YouTube. Things change one day, when a person with mismatched male and female attributes comes in, calling itself the personification of Intelligence, with a unique project for Johnny Net: Giving it some spotlight for the world at large...

* ''Sept comme setteur'' (''The Bone Setter'')
* ''Madame Wenham'' (''Miss Wenham'')
* ''Quinze minutes'' (''Fifteen minutes'')
* ''Faims'' (''Hungers'')

* ''Les sept jours du talion'' (''Seven Days''): On a clear and sunny day, surgeon Bruno Hamel's daughter is kidnapped, raped and murdered. Bruno falls into depression and becomes unable to enjoy life. When a suspect is caught and shown to be quite guilty, Hamel hatches up a plan to kidnap the monster (he resuses to see the guy as a human), bring him to a remote location, and put him through seven days of intense torture before killing him. It becomes a race against the clock for the Drummondville Police Department to find Hamel before he sinks deeper into sadism than the man he's holding hostage.

** ''Le cas des casiers carnassiers'' (''Case of the Carnivorous Lockers'')
** ''Torture, luxure et lecture'' (''Tortures, Sinners and Readers'')
** ''Ce qui se passe à la cave reste à la cave'' (''What Happens in the Basement Stays in the Basement'')
** ''Grande liquidation'' (''Great Blowout'')

* ''Sur le seuil'' (''Over the Threshhold''/[[CompletelyDifferentTitle ''Evil Words'']]): A day after the tragedy of a policeman shooting and killing multiple children and harming many others, psychiatrist Paul Lacasse is put in charge of the psychiatric evaluation of famous horror author Thomas Roy, found catatonic in his apartment with all of his fingers cut off. Doctor Lacasse intends to take this caseas if it was any other, despite the fame surrounding this new patient and his own colleague Jeanne being a big fan of the author. However, as Lacasse digs into Roy's past with the help of a tabloid reporter, he starts finding more and more bizarre coincidences tying Roy's books with most of the major tragedies that took place in the previous years. Meanwhile, Thomas Roy's presence in the psychiatric ward increases the insanities of the other patients, and things only start getting worse from there.

* ''Sur le seuil'' (''Over the Threshhold''/''Evil Words''): A day after the tragedy of a policeman shooting and killing multiple children and harming many others, psychiatrist Paul Lacasse is put in charge of the psychiatric evaluation of famous horror author Thomas Roy, found catatonic in his apartment with all of his fingers cut off. Doctor Lacasse intends to take this caseas if it was any other, despite the fame surrounding this new patient and his own colleague Jeanne being a big fan of the author. However, as Lacasse digs into Roy's past with the help of a tabloid reporter, he starts finding more and more bizarre coincidences tying Roy's books with most of the major tragedies that took place in the previous years. Meanwhile, Thomas Roy's presence in the psychiatric ward increases the insanities of the other patients, and things only start getting worse from there.

His books tend to fall in one of two categories: Thriller, mystery or suspense stories that usually follow a realistic train of thought, with a 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 [[MostWritersAreWriters writers]] to CEGEP teachers to detectives to psychiatrists to richer folks. Most of these protagonists also live in Drummondville, Patriock Senécal's hometown.

* ''Contre Dieu'' (''Against God''): In this one-sentence, 106-page thriller intercut with dialogue, a man loses his wife and children in a car crash and chooses to stop following the rules of life, the laws of society, he embarks on a path of chaos and destruction where he goes off the deep end, in an attempt to prove that fate is all but a lie, that there is no reason to believe in a God who allows for this kind of accident to happen, that happy lives can be ruined in a moment by a man crazy enough...
* ''Malphas''

* ''Contre Dieu'' (''Against God''): In this one-sentence, 106-age thriller intercut with dialogue, a man loses his wife and children in a car crash and loses all will to follow the rules of life, the laws of society, he embarks on a path of chaos and destruction where he goes off the deep end, in an attempt to prove that fate is all but a lie, that there is no reason to believe in a God who allows for this kind of accident to happen, that happy lives can be ruined in a moment by a man crazy enough...

* ''Hell.Com'': Rich investor Daniel Saul
* ''Contre Dieu'' (''Against God'')

* ''Le vide'' (''The Emptiness'')
* ''Hell.Com''

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 [[MostWritersAreWriters writers]] to CEGEP teachers to detectives to psychiatrists to richer folks. Most of these protagonists also live in Drummondville, Patriock Senécal's hometown.

** 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'', where she seems to have accepted that she isn't above life, although she still has nothing that prevents her from killing if need be.

* ''Oniria'': Four escaped inmates from the local prison: Dave, Jef, Eric and Loner. Dave convinces the others to invade a residence named Oniria; it belongs to his psychiatrist at the prison, Vivianne. Upon meeting Zorn, her husband, and Eva, the mansion's sexy maid, the inmates learn that the basement of this place is actually a laboratory located deep underground where the three conduct experiments on the dreams of psychopaths, in an attempt to understand their madness. The characters of these dreams are materialized into the basement and interact. However, the tables are turned on the four when Vivianne locks herself, Zorn and Eva in the control room and forces the inmates to fight off the various crazy and dangerous dream-people.

* ''Oniria''

* ''Le passager'' (''The Passenger''): Étienne Séguin, a young literature college teacher, has to travel a long distance back and forth for work, and one night he starts picking up a hitchhiker. It turns out that the man, Alex Salvail, used to be a childhood friend of his, which Étienne doesn't remember since he forgot his childhood years after being hit on the head. Alex, however, hasn't forgotten the games they used to play, and he intends to continue those.

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 [[MostWritersAreWriters writers]] to CEGEP teachers to detectives to psychiatrists to ricker folks. Most of these protagonists also live in Drummondville, Patriock Senécal's hometown.