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 is a juror for the Shirley Jackson Awards.
Life and career
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 Providence, 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, a private school outside Boston, Massachusetts.
Tremblay's novel No Sleep till Wonderland was published by Henry Holt and Company in 2010. Swallowing a Donkey's Eye was published by ChiZine Publications in 2012.
Tremblay collaborated with fellow horror writer Stephen Graham Jones 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 Horror Writers Association's 2015 Bram Stoker Award for Novel. In 2015, Focus Features optioned the novel.
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 June 26, 2018. It won the 2019 Bram Stoker Award for Novel and 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.
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.
Bibliography
The Little Sleep (Henry Holt and Company, March 2009) The Harlequin & the Train (Necropolitan Press, June 2009, novella-length expansion of the 2003 short story) No Sleep till Wonderland (Henry Holt and Company, 2010) Swallowing a Donkey's Eye (ChiZine Publications, 2012) A Head Full of Ghosts (William Morrow and Company, June 2, 2015) winner of the 2015 Bram Stoker Award for Novel Disappearance at Devil's Rock (William Morrow and Company, June 21, 2016) The Cabin at the End of the World (William Morrow and Company, June 26, 2018) – winner of the 2019 Bram Stoker Award for Novel and Locus Award for Best Horror Novel Survivor Song (William Morrow and Company, 2020) The Pallbearers Club (William Morrow and Company, 2022) The Beast You Are: Stories (William Morrow and Company, 2023)