Pascal Laugier

Girls and women who live through something unbearable are at the centre of Pascal Laugier's horror. In Martyrs, Lucie goes looking for revenge fifteen years after she was abducted and tortured, with her friend Anna beside her. Ghostland traps a mother and her two daughters in the house they have just inherited. The Tall Man is set in Cold Rock, a town whose children keep going missing.

Signature

• The extreme violence of the New French Extremity (Martyrs).
• Young women who fight back.
• Plots that switch genre partway through.
• Haunted houses and orphanages (House of Voices, Ghostland).