Paul Tremblay

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Paul Tremblay
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Tremblay at the 2024 Texas Book Festival.
Born (1971-06-30) June 30, 1971 (age 54)
Occupation
  • Author
  • editor
Period2000–present
Genre Horror fiction, science fiction, dark fantasy, New Weird, weird fiction
Literary movement Postmodernism
Notable works A Head Full of Ghosts
The Cabin at the End of the World
Children2
Website
www.paultremblay.net

Paul Gaetan Tremblay (born June 30, 1971 [1] ) is an American author and editor of horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction. His most widely known novels include A Head Full of Ghosts , The Cabin at the End of the World , and Survivor Song . He has won multiple Bram Stoker Awards and is a juror for the Shirley Jackson Awards.

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Early life and education

Tremblay was born in Aurora, Colorado, and raised in Massachusetts. [2] He had spinal fusion surgery to treat scoliosis before he went to college. [3] He attended Providence College in Rhode Island, receiving his bachelor's degree in 1993. He obtained his master's degree in mathematics from the University of Vermont in 1995. [4] [5]

In summers between college, Tremblay worked at the Parker Brothers factory in Salem, Massachusetts, primarily in the warehouse and assembly lines. After graduation, he began teaching high school mathematics and coaching junior varsity basketball at Saint Sebastian's School. [6]

Career

Tremblay's novel The Little Sleep was published by Henry Holt and Company in 2009 as well as its follow-up No Sleep till Wonderland in 2010. [7] [8] Swallowing a Donkey's Eye was published by ChiZine Publications in 2012. [9] [10] [11]

Tremblay collaborated with Stephen Graham Jones to write the young adult novel Floating Boy and the Girl Who Couldn't Fly. The novel was published in 2014 under the pseudonym P.T. Jones. [12] [13]

Tremblay's novel A Head Full of Ghosts was published on June 2, 2015, by William Morrow and Company and won the Horror Writers Association's 2015 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel. [14] [15] In 2015, Focus Features optioned the novel. [16]

Disappearance at Devil's Rock was published in 2016 and received the 2017 British Fantasy Award for best horror novel. [17] [18]

The Cabin at the End of the World was published June 26, 2018. [19] It won the 2019 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel and the Locus Award for Best Horror Novel. [20] FilmNation acquired the rights to The Cabin at the End of the World in April 2018, before its publication. [21] The novel was adapted into the 2023 film Knock at the Cabin , directed by M. Night Shyamalan. [22]

Survivor Song was published on July 7, 2020, [23] and The Pallbearers Club was published in 2022. [24] The Beast You Are, a collection of fifteen short stories, was published in July 2023. [25] His dystopian horror novel Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep is due to release in June 2026. [26]

Bibliography

Novels
Collections
Anthologies
Short fiction

Under the pseudonym P.T. Jones (with Stephen Graham Jones)

  • Floating Boy and the Girl Who Couldn't Fly. ChiTeen. 2014. ISBN   9781771481731.

Awards

WorkYear & AwardCategoryResultRef.
The Teacher2007 Bram Stoker Award Short FictionNominated [27]
There's No Light Between Floor2007 Bram Stoker AwardShort FictionNominated [28]
"The Blog at the End of the World"2008 Black Quill AwardsBest Dark Scribble (Editors' Choice)Won [29]
The Little Sleep2009 Bram Stoker AwardFirst NovelNominated [30]
"The Harlequin and the Train"2009 Black Quill AwardsSmall Press ChillNominated [31]
In the Mean Time2010 Black Quill AwardsDark Genre Fiction CollectionNominated [32]
A Head Full of Ghosts 2015 Goodreads Choice Awards HorrorNominated [33]
2015 Bram Stoker AwardNovelWon [34]
2016 RUSA CODES Reading ListHorrorShortlisted [35]
2016 World Fantasy Award NovelNominated [36]
Disappearance at Devil's Rock 2016 Dragon Awards HorrorNominated [37]
2016 Goodreads Choice AwardsHorrorNominated [38]
2016 Bram Stoker AwardNovelNominated [39]
2017 British Fantasy AwardAugust Derleth AwardWon [40]
2017 Locus Award Horror NovelNominated [41]
The Cabin at the End of the World 2018 Dragon AwardsHorrorNominated [42]
2018 Goodreads Choice AwardsHorrorNominated [43]
2018 Bram Stoker AwardNovelWon [44]
2019 RUSA CODES Reading ListHorrorShortlisted [45]
2019 British Fantasy AwardAugust Derleth AwardNominated [46]
2019 Locus AwardHorror NovelWon [47]
Growing Things and Other Stories2019 Goodreads Choice AwardsHorrorNominated [48]
2019 Bram Stoker AwardFiction CollectionWon [49]
2020 British Fantasy AwardCollectionNominated [50]
2020 Locus AwardCollectionNominated [51]
Survivor Song 2020 Goodreads Choice AwardsHorrorNominated [52]
2021 Dragon AwardsHorror NovelNominated [53]
2021 Locus AwardHorror NovelNominated [54]
2021 British Fantasy AwardAugust Derleth AwardNominated [55]
Ice Cold Lemonade 25ȼ Haunted House Tour: 1 Per Person2020 Locus AwardNoveletteNominated [56]
The Pallbearers Club2023 Dragon AwardsHorror NovelNominated [57]
2023 Locus AwardHorror NovelNominated [58]
Horror Movie2025 Locus AwardHorror NovelNominated [59]
2024 Bram Stoker AwardNovelNominated [60]

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