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Paul Tremblay is an American author that writes horror. Born in 1971 in Aurora, Colorado, Tremblay attended the University of Vermont from where he acquired a Master’s in Mathematics. This was after securing his bachelor’s degree from Providence College.

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Order of Mark Genevich Series

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1 The Little Sleep 2009 Description / Buy
2 No Sleep Till Wonderland 2010 Description / Buy

Order of Paul Tremblay Standalone Novels

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1 Compositons for the Young and Old 2004 Description / Buy
2 Swallowing a Donkey's Eye 2012 Description / Buy
3 Floating Boy and the Girl Who Couldn't Fly ( With: Stephen Graham Jones) 2014 Description / Buy
4 A Head Full of Ghosts 2015 Description / Buy
5 Disappearance at Devil's Rock 2016 Description / Buy
6 The Cabin at the End of the World 2018 Description / Buy
7 Survivor Song 2020 Description / Buy
8 The Pallbearers Club 2022 Description / Buy
9 Horror Movie 2024 Description / Buy

Order of Paul Tremblay Collections

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1 City Pier (Short Story) 2007 Description / Buy
2 In the Mean Time 2010 Description / Buy
3 Growing Things and Other Stories 2019 Description / Buy
4 The Beast You Are 2023 Description / Buy

Order of Paul Tremblay Short Stories/Novellas

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1 The Teacher 2007 Description / Buy
2 There's No Light Between Floors 2007 Description / Buy
3 The Harlequin and the Train 2009 Description / Buy
4 In Bloom 2023 Description / Buy

Order of Forward Series

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1 Randomize ( By: Andy Weir) 2019 Description / Buy
2 Summer Frost (Short Story) ( By: Blake Crouch) 2019 Description / Buy
3 Ark (Short Story) ( By: Veronica Roth) 2019 Description / Buy
4 You Have Arrived at Your Destination (Short Story) ( By: Amor Towles) 2019 Description / Buy
5 Emergency Skin (Short Story) ( By: N.K. Jemisin) 2019 Description / Buy
6 The Last Conversation (Short Story) 2019 Description / Buy
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Paul Tremblay Anthologies

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1 Brainbox II : Son of Brainbox 2001 Description / Buy
2 Vivisections 2003 Description / Buy
3 Jigsaw Nation 2006 Description / Buy
4 Phantom 2009 Description / Buy
5 The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2010 2010 Description / Buy
6 Supernatural Noir 2011 Description / Buy
7 Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters 2011 Description / Buy
8 The Grimscribe's Puppets 2013 Description / Buy
9 Chewing the Page: The Mourning Goats Interviews 2013 Description / Buy
10 The Booked. Anthology 2013 Description / Buy
11 The New Black 2014 Description / Buy
12 The Children of Old Leech 2014 Description / Buy
13 Letters to Lovecraft 2014 Description / Buy
14 Gutted 2016 Description / Buy
15 The Madness of Dr. Caligari 2016 Description / Buy
16 The Shadow Booth: Vol. 1 2017 Description / Buy
17 The Black Room Manuscripts Volume Three 2018 Description / Buy
18 Suspended in Dusk II 2018 Description / Buy
19 Phantoms 2018 Description / Buy
20 Transmissions From Punktown 2018 Description / Buy
21 Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories 2019 Description / Buy
22 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve 2020 Description / Buy
23 Grimdark Magazine Issue #27 2021 Description / Buy
24 When Things Get Dark 2021 Description / Buy
25 Revelations 2022 Description / Buy
26 Voices in the Dark 2022 Description / Buy
27 Isolation 2022 Description / Buy
28 Unspeakable Horror 3: Dark Rainbow Rising 2023 Description / Buy
29 Shotgun Honey Presents: At the Edge of Darkness 2024 Description / Buy
30 You're Not Alone in the Dark 2024 Description / Buy
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Before kickstarting his writing career, the author worked at a factory in Salem during his college days and as a high school teacher following his graduation. He also coached the basketball team at a private school in Boston.

Tremblay’s big break as a writer came in 2015 when Stephen King praised his novel ‘A Head Full of Ghosts’ for scaring him. This was significant because King has written some of the most frightening horror novels in the publishing arena.

As a child, Paul Tremblay had no interest in books. He was familiar with some of the classics but only because he was a good student that made it a point to read every book his teachers assigned to him.

However, he was more interested in sports. And because he had no interest in reading, the author was just as disinterested in writing. As a high school student, a bout of scoliosis forced Tremblay to stay home. To pass the time, he discovered and attempted to read Stephen King’s ‘IT’.

However, this wasn’t Tremblay’s turning point. Stephen King’s work wasn’t new to the writer. He knew that King was a superstar in the horror arena. As such, he understood that ‘IT’, one of King’s most popular novels, was designed to scare its readers.

And yet, the amount of fear it instilled in Tremblay surprised him. He couldn’t make it past the first few chapters. In fact, he went so far as to throw the book across the room. This should have marked the end of Tremblay’s experimentation with publishing and horror in particular.

But then he grew up, went to college, and met the woman that would eventually become his wife. She recommended King’s ‘The Stand’ to the writer. Not only did Tremblay read the book to completion but he went on to consume King’s entire bibliography.

With his love for reading finally ignited, the temptation to write fiction followed. The author was 24 when he wrote his first short story. While he enjoyed the process of writing the story, it never saw the light of day because he wrote it on an old word processor and he forgot to back it up.

Once he lost the story, which was the longest he had ever written, he had no way of retrieving it. But this hurdle barely slowed him down. If anything, it gave him the impetus to write even more stories, eventually producing ‘King Bee’. It was the first short story he sold, and it wasn’t the last.

Influenced by writers like Kurt Vonnegut, Tremblay started churning out short stories and full-length novels, slowly and steadily making a name for himself among horror enthusiasts. His career was already on the upswing when King made him a star by praising his work on Twitter.

Paul Tremblay Awards

Tremblay won the Bram Stoker Prize in 2015. He also received a World Fantasy Award nomination in 2016.

Best Paul Tremblay Books

Tremblay decided to enter the horror genre because every time he sat down to write a story, it would always take a dark turn. This told him that his talents were best utilized within the horror genre. Some of Tremblay’s best books include:

A Head Full of Ghosts: Marjorie’s parents thought she was schizophrenic. However, the doctors couldn’t prevent her mental deterioration. Her father was out of work, so he couldn’t afford the medical bills. With Marjorie’s sickness unleashing mysterious horrors in their home, the family was forced to secure the services of a priest who, in turn, invited a film crew to document an attempted exorcism.

Years later, Merry, Marjorie’s younger sister who was just eight at the time, reveals the secrets that the public never saw when they watched ‘The Possession’, the reality show that chronicled her family’s tragedy.

The Cabin at the End of the World: Wen’s life was normal. The seven-year-old was on vacation at a remote cabin with her parents when she met Leonard. The stranger was large but friendly. They started talking. Wen had no reason to suspect Leonard’s motives. But then Leonard’s friends came and Wen learned that she was expected to save the world.

When Does The Next Paul Tremblay book come out?

Paul Tremblay doesn't seem to have an upcoming book. Their newest book is Shotgun Honey Presents: At the Edge of Darkness and was released on October, 29th 2024.

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  1. I adored The Little Sleep and have told friends about it. Looking forward to consuming No Sleep Till Wonderland. I was forbidden from viewing horror movies by my mother after I repeatedly dreamed that Frankenstein spanked me. The tendency to overreact to horror has remained; bummer. So, clearly I’d love to see more (non-horror) from your magic pen.
    Thank you for the writing and for inspiring my own.
    Edie Shapiro

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