Paul G. Tremblay
Also recorded as Paul Tremblay
Paul G. Tremblay
- Born
- 1971 · Aurora.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- novelist · writer
- Fields
- literature
- Education
- University of Vermont · Providence College
- Honours
- Locus Award for Best Horror Novel · Bram Stoker Award for Novel · August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel · Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection
- Languages
- English
In this article
Key facts
Tremblay studied at University of Vermont and Providence College. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is literature. Distinctions recorded are Locus Award for Best Horror Novel, Bram Stoker Award for Novel, August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel and Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection.
• Name — Paul Tremblay
• Born — 1971 6 30
• Birthplace — Aurora, Colorado, U.S.
• Occupation — * Author
• editor
• Period — 2000–present
• Genre — Horror fiction, science fiction, dark fantasy, New Weird, weird fiction
• Movement — Postmodernism
• Notable Works — A Head Full of Ghosts
The Cabin at the End of the World
• Children — 2
• Website — paultremblay.net
Paul Gaetan Tremblay (born June 30, 1971 ) 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 been a juror for the Shirley Jackson Awards.
Early life and education
Tremblay was born in Aurora, Colorado, and raised in Massachusetts. He had spinal fusion surgery to treat scoliosis before he went to college. 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.
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.
Career
Tremblay's novel The Little Sleep was published by Henry Holt and Company in 2009, and its follow-up No Sleep Till Wonderland in 2010. Swallowing a Donkey's Eye was published by ChiZine Publications in 2012.
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.
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. In 2015, Focus Features optioned the novel. In 2024, Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala were announced to direct the film adapation. In 2026, Lionsgate Films acquired the distribution rights with production set to begin in March of that year.
Disappearance at Devil's Rock was published in 2016 and received the 2017 British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel.
The Cabin at the End of the World was published on June 26, 2018. It won the Locus Award for Best Horror Novel. 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, directed by M. Night Shyamalan.
His collection Growing Things and Other Stories was published in 2019 by William Morrow and Company and won the 2019 Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection.
Survivor Song 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. His dystopian horror novel Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep was released in June 2026.
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)
• Floating Boy and the Girl Who Couldn't Fly (2014) (with Stephen Graham Jones under the pseudonym P.T. Jones) (ChiTeen)
• 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)
• Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep (2026) (HarperCollins)
Anthologies
• Bandersnatch (2007) (with Sean Wallace) (Wildside Press)
• Phantom (2009) (co-edited with Sean Wallace) (Prime Books)
• Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters (2011) (co-edited with John Langan) (Prime Books)
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)
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Collections
• Compositions for the Young and Old (2004) (Wildside Press)
• City Pier: Above and Below (2007) (Prime Books)
• In the Mean Time (2010) (ChiZine Publications)
• Growing Things and Other Stories (2019) (William Morrow and Company)
• The Beast You Are: Stories (2023) (William Morrow and Company)
Awards
• Work — Year & Award — Category — Result — Ref Reference.
• The Teacher — 2007 Bram Stoker Award — Short Fiction
• There's No Light Between Floor — 2007 Bram Stoker Award — Short Fiction
• "The Blog at the End of the World" — 2008 Black Quill Awards — Best Dark Scribble (Editors' Choice)
• The Little Sleep — 2009 Bram Stoker Award — First Novel
• "The Harlequin and the Train" — 2009 Black Quill Awards — Small Press Chill
• In the Mean Time — 2010 Black Quill Awards — Dark Genre Fiction Collection
• A Head Full of Ghosts — 2015 Goodreads Choice Awards — Horror
• 2015 Bram Stoker Award — Novel
• 2016 RUSA CODES Reading List — Horror
• 2016 World Fantasy Award — Novel
• Disappearance at Devil's Rock — 2016 Dragon Awards — Horror
• 2016 Goodreads Choice Awards — Horror
• 2016 Bram Stoker Award — Novel
• 2017 British Fantasy Award — August Derleth Award
• 2017 Locus Award — Horror Novel
• The Cabin at the End of the World — 2018 Dragon Awards — Horror
• 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards — Horror
• 2018 Bram Stoker Award — Novel
• 2019 RUSA CODES Reading List — Horror
• 2019 British Fantasy Award — August Derleth Award
• 2019 Locus Award — Horror Novel
• Growing Things and Other Stories — 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards — Horror
• 2019 Bram Stoker Award — Fiction Collection
• 2020 British Fantasy Award — Collection
• 2020 Locus Award — Collection
• Survivor Song — 2020 Goodreads Choice Awards — Horror
• 2021 Dragon Awards — Horror Novel
• 2021 Locus Award — Horror Novel
• 2021 British Fantasy Award — August Derleth Award
• Ice Cold Lemonade 25ȼ Haunted House Tour: 1 Per Person — 2020 Locus Award — Novelette
• The Pallbearers Club — 2023 Dragon Awards — Horror Novel
• 2023 Locus Award — Horror Novel
• Horror Movie — 2025 Locus Award — Horror Novel
• 2024 Bram Stoker Award — Novel
Cited by Wikipedia
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- 1.Paul Tremblay: Aftermath. Locus Online. May 7, 2017.
- 2.Janson, Janelle. Paul Tremblay on Putting Story First, Writing Atmosphere, and His New Novel. Tor Nightfire. June 14, 2021.
- 3.Sutherl, Amy. Paul Tremblay, author of novel turned into 'Knock at the Cabin' film, finds human connection in horror. The Boston Globe. February 23, 2023.
- 4.Tabler, Elizabeth. An Interview with Paul Tremblay. Grimdark Magazine. July 19, 2021.
- 5.Walmsley, Stasia. Novel by Paul Tremblay '93 inspires M. Night Shyamalan's thriller Knock at the Cabin. Providence College Magazine. February 3, 2023.
- 6.Castiglione, Alexander. INTERVIEW: Paul Tremblay, Author of 'Disappearance at Devil's Rock'. Cultured Vultures. 2016-06-11.
- 7.Tremblay, Paul G. The Little Sleep. Henry Holt and Company. 273. 2009. 978-0-8050-8849-6.
- 8.Paul Tremblay '93 – From Fractions to Fiction (Rebroadcast). Academic Affairs at Providence College. 2017-10-30.
- 9.Iglesias, Gabino. Paul Tremblay, one of the new faces of horror. Los Angeles Times. 2018-08-24.
- 10.THE LITTLE SLEEP. Kirkus Reviews. January 15, 2009.
- 11.Swallowing a Donkey's Eye. Publishers Weekly. 2012-07-09.
- 12.Niedzviecki, Hal. Swallowing a Donkey's Eye. Broken Pencil. March 5, 2013.
- 13.Park, Sora. Science-fiction author describes 'oddly personal' journey. Brown Daily Herald. 2012-09-14.
- 14.Nadig, Nancy. Floating Boy and the Girl Who Couldn't Fly. School Library Journal. December 1, 2014.
- 15.Floating Boy and the Girl Who Couldn't Fly. Publishers Weekly. 2014-08-25.
- 16.A Head Full of Ghosts. HarperCollins.
- 17.2015 Bram Stoker Awards® Winners. Horror Writers Association. 15 May 2016.
- 18.Martin, Emily. One of the Best Horror Novels of the 21st Century is Getting a Film Adaptation!. BOOK RIOT. 2026-03-13.
- 19.Fleming, Mike Jr. Focus Features Wins Auction For Paul Tremblay Novel A Head Full Of Ghosts. Deadline Hollywood. May 6, 2016.
- 20.Ramachandran, Naman. Robert Downey Jr.-Produced 'A Head Full of Ghosts' Sets Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala as Directors, Fifth Season Financing. Variety. 2024-02-15.
- 21.Wiseman, Andreas. David Harbour, Rebecca Hall & Esmé Creed-Miles To Lead Horror 'A Head Full Of Ghosts'; Lionsgate Takes World Rights Ahead Of EFM. Deadline. 2026-02-06.
- 22.Heller, Jason. 'Devil's Rock' Is An Atmospheric, Gut-Twisting Descent. NPR. 2016-06-22.
- 23.Announcing the 2017 British Fantasy Award Winners. Tor.com. 2017-10-01.
- 24.Borders, Meredith. 'The Cabin at the End of the World' by Paul Tremblay. LitReactor. June 26, 2018.
- 25.2019 Locus Awards Winners. Locus Online. 2019-06-29.
- 26.Busch, Anita. FilmNation Acquires Paul Tremblay's The Cabin At The End Of The World. Deadline Hollywood. April 12, 2018.
- 27.Calia, Mike. Hollywood finally comes calling for horror writer Paul Tremblay. CNBC. July 16, 2022.
- 28.Garstang, Clifford. Growing Things and Other Stories. Washington Independent Review of Books. August 6, 2019.
- 29.2019 Stoker Awards Winners. Locus. 2020-04-20.
- 30.Ehrlich, Brenna. What It's Like Releasing a Novel About a Deadly Virus in the Middle of Pandemic. Rolling Stone. 2020-04-01.
- 31.Bond, Shannon. 'The Pallbearer's Club:' a memoir on friendship — and a vampire thriller. NPR. 2022-07-03.
- 32.Spratford, Becky. The Beast You Are: Stories. Library Journal. June 1, 2023.
- 33.Tagen-Dye, Carly. Paul Tremblay Takes on AI in New Dystopian Horror 'Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep' — See the Cover! (Exclusive). People.com. October 22, 2025.
- 34.2007 Bram Stoker Award Winners & Nominees. The Bram Stoker Awards.
- 35.Tremblay, Paul. There's No Light Between Floors. Clarkesworld Magazine. May 2007.
- 36.2nd Annual - Winners. Dark Scribe Magazine.
- 37.2009 Bram Stoker Award Winners & Nominees. The Bram Stoker Awards.
- 38.3rd Annual - Nominees. Dark Scribe Magazine.
- 39.4th Annual - Nominees. Dark Scribe Magazine.
- 40.Announcing the Goodreads Choice Winner in Best Horror!. Goodreads.
- 41.2015 Bram Stoker Award Nominees & Winners. The Bram Stoker Awards.
- 42.The Reading List. RUSA Update.
- 43.2016 World Fantasy Convention℠. World Fantasy Convention.
- 44.2016 Dragon Awards Winners. Locus Online. 2016-09-06.
- 45.Announcing the Goodreads Choice Winner in Best Horror!. Goodreads.
- 46.2016 Bram Stoker Award Winners & Nominees. The Bram Stoker Awards.
- 47.Announcing the 2017 British Fantasy Award Winners. Reactor. 2017-10-01.
- 48.2017 Locus Awards Winners. Locus Online. 2017-06-24.
- 49.2018 Dragon Awards Winners. Locus Online. 2018-09-04.
- 50.Announcing the Goodreads Choice Winner in Best Horror!. Goodreads.
- 51.2018 Bram Stoker Awards Winners & Nominees. The Bram Stoker Awards.
- 52.August Derleth Award. Worlds Without End.
- 53.2019 Locus Awards Winners. Locus Online. 2019-06-29.
- 54.Announcing the Goodreads Choice Winner in Best Horror!. Goodreads.
- 55.The 2019 Bram Stoker Award® Winners. The Bram Stoker Awards.
- 56.2020 British Fantasy Awards Winners. Locus Online. 2021-02-22.
- 57.Award Category: 2020 Best Collection (Locus Poll Award). www.isfdb.org.
- 58.Announcing the Goodreads Choice Winner in Best Horror!. Goodreads.
- 59.2021 Dragon Awards Winners. Locus Online. 2021-09-07.
- 60.2021 Locus Awards Winners. Locus Online. 2021-06-26.
- 61.Locus Awards 2020. sfadb.
- 62.2023 Dragon Awards, Julie Award, and Mike Resnick Memorial Award Winners. Locus Online. 2023-09-06.
- 63.2023 Locus Awards Winners. Locus Online. 2023-06-25.
- 64.2025 Locus Awards Winners. Locus Online. 2025-06-22.
- 65.The 2024 Bram Stoker Award® Winners. The Bram Stoker Awards. 2025-06-18.
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