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Paul Gaetan Tremblay (born June 30, 1971) is an American author and editor of
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,
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, and
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. His most widely known novels include '' A Head Full of Ghosts'', ''
The Cabin at the End of the World ''The Cabin at the End of the World'' is a 2018 horror novel by American writer Paul G. Tremblay. The novel won the Horror Writers Association's Bram Stoker Award for Novel in 2019. It was adapted into the 2023 film ''Knock at the Cabin'' by ...
'', and ''
Survivor Song ''Survivor Song'' is a horror novel by American author Paul G. Tremblay, published by William Morrow on July 7, 2020. The narrative centers on characters striving to survive amidst a devastatingly infectious viral outbreak in Massachusetts. ...
''. He has won multiple Bram Stoker Awards and is a juror for the
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.


Life and career

Tremblay was born in
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, and raised in
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. He had
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surgery to treat
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before he went to college. He attended
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in
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, receiving his
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in 1993. He obtained his
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in mathematics from the
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in 1995. In summers between college, Tremblay worked at the
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factory in
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, primarily in the warehouse and assembly lines. After graduation, he began teaching
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mathematics and coaching junior varsity basketball at
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, a
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outside
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,
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. Tremblay's novel ''No Sleep till Wonderland'' was published by
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in 2010. ''Swallowing a Donkey's Eye'' was published by ChiZine Publications in 2012. Tremblay collaborated with fellow horror writer
Stephen Graham Jones Stephen Graham Jones (born January 22, 1972) is a Piegan Blackfoot, Blackfeet Native Americans in the United States, Native American author of experimental fiction, horror fiction, crime fiction, and science fiction. His works include the horror ...
to write ''Floating Boy and the Girl Who Couldn't Fly'', a young adult novel. The novel was published in 2014 under the pseudonym P. T. Jones. Tremblay's novel '' A Head Full of Ghosts'' was published on June 2, 2015, by William Morrow and won the
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's 2015
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. In 2015,
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optioned the novel. '' Disappearance at Devil's Rock'' was published in 2016'Devil's Rock' Is An Atmospheric, Gut-Twisting Descent -NPR
/ref> and received the 2017
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for best horror novel. ''
The Cabin at the End of the World ''The Cabin at the End of the World'' is a 2018 horror novel by American writer Paul G. Tremblay. The novel won the Horror Writers Association's Bram Stoker Award for Novel in 2019. It was adapted into the 2023 film ''Knock at the Cabin'' by ...
'' was published June 26, 2018. It won the 2019
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and the
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. FilmNation acquired the rights to ''The Cabin at the End of the World'' in April 2018, before its publication. The novel was adapted into the 2023 film ''
Knock at the Cabin ''Knock at the Cabin'' is a 2023 American apocalyptic psychological horror film written, directed and produced by M. Night Shyamalan, who wrote the screenplay from an initial draft by Steve Desmond and Michael Sherman. It is based on the 2018 ...
'', directed by
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. ''
Survivor Song ''Survivor Song'' is a horror novel by American author Paul G. Tremblay, published by William Morrow on July 7, 2020. The narrative centers on characters striving to survive amidst a devastatingly infectious viral outbreak in Massachusetts. ...
'' was published on July 7, 2020, and ''The Pallbearers Club'' was published in 2022. ''The Beast You Are'', a collection of fifteen short stories, was published in July 2023.


Bibliography

;Novels * ''The Little Sleep'' (2009) (
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) * ''No Sleep Till Wonderland'' (2010) (Henry Holt and Company) * ''Swallowing a Donkey's Eye'' (2012) (ChiZine Publications) * ''A Head Full of Ghosts'' (2015) (
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) * ''Disappearance at Devil's Rock'' (2016) (William Morrow and Company) * ''The Cabin at the End of the World'' (2018) (William Morrow and Company) * ''Survivor Song'' (2020) (William Morrow and Company) * ''The Pallbearers Club'' (2022) (William Morrow and Company) * ''Horror Movie'' (2024) (William Morrow and Company) ;Collections * ''Compositions for the Young and Old'' (2004) * ''City Pier: Above and Below'' (2007) * ''In the Mean Time'' (2010) * ''Growing Things and Other Stories'' (2019) (William Morrow and Company) * ''The Beast You Are: Stories'' (2023) (William Morrow and Company) ;Anthologies * ''Bandersnatch'' (2007) (with
Sean Wallace Sean Wallace (born January 1, 1976) is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologist, editor, and publisher best known for founding the publishing house Prime Books and for co-editing three magazines, ''Clarkesworld Magazine'', '' ...
) * ''Phantom'' (2009) with Sean Wallace * ''Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters'' (2011) (with
John Langan John Langan (born July 6, 1969) is an American author and writer of contemporary horror. Langan has been a finalist for International Horror Guild Award. In 2008, he was a Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Collection, and in 2016, a Bram Stoker ...
) ;Short Fiction ''(Uncollected)'' * ''Hurt'' (2001) * ''Them Bones'' (2001) * ''The Wizard's Imp'' (2001) * ''A Monster on Yur Parasol'' (2003) * ''The Dilky Never Landed'' (2004) * ''All Sliding to One Side'' (2004) * ''Holes'' (2006) * ''The Fate of Poor Jack Haringa'' (2008) * ''The Harlequin & the Train?'' (2009) (Novella-length expansion of the 2003 short story) * ''Our Stories Will Live Forever'' (2012) * ''The Dead Boy'' (2014) * ''Scenes from the City of Garbage and the City of Clay'' (2015) * ''Shattered'' (2016) * ''Excerpt from A Head Full of Ghosts'' (2017) * ''These Are Our Town's Monsters'' (2018) * ''If Willow Believed in Any Kind of Ghosts'' (2023) * ''In Bloom'' (2023) (Amazon Original Stories)


Under the pseudonym P. T. Jones

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Awards


References


External links


Paul G. Tremblay's Official Web Site

Are You Sure You Want to Read This???: Paul G. Tremblay's LiveJournal Blog
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Paul G. Tremblay interview
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