Paul Tremblay

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.

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]

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]

Novels

• The Little Sleep (2009) (Henry Holt and Company)
• No Sleep Till Wonderland (2010) (Henry Holt and Company)
• Swallowing a Donkey's Eye (2012) (ChiZine Publications)^[9]
• A Head Full of Ghosts (2015) (William Morrow and Company)
• 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)
• Another (2025) (Quill Tree Books)

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)
• Phantom (2009) (with Sean Wallace)
• Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters (2011) (with John Langan)

Short fiction

• 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)

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

• Official website
• Paul Tremblay at LiveJournal
• Paul G. Tremblay at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database