Paul Gaetan Tremblay (born June 30, 1971) is an American author and editor of horror, dark fantasy, and

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. He is also a juror for the

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Biography

Tremblay was born in

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, and raised in

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. He had

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surgery to treat scoliosis before he went to college. He attended Providence College in

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, receiving his

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in 1993. He obtained his

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in mathematics from the

University of Vermont The University of Vermont (UVM), officially the University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, is a public land-grant research university in Burlington, Vermont. It was founded in 1791 and is among the oldest universities in the United ...

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 Boston, Massachusetts. 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, Focus Features 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'' was published June 26, 2018. It won the 2019

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''. '' Survivor Song'' was published on July 7, 2020 and ''The Pallbearers Club'' was published in 2022.

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'' (

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, June 2, 2015) winner of the 2015

* '' Disappearance at Devil's Rock'' (

, June 21, 2016) * '' The Cabin at the End of the World'' (

, June 26, 2018) – winner of the 2019

and

* '' Survivor Song'' (

, 2020) * '' The Pallbearers Club'' (

, 2022)

Under the pseudonym P. T. Jones

References

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General 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
at Punktalk

at Largehearted Boy {{DEFAULTSORT:Tremblay, Paul G. 1971 births American horror novelists Living people Providence College alumni University of Vermont alumni Writers from Boston 21st-century American novelists American male novelists American fantasy writers Novelists from Colorado American male short story writers Weird fiction writers 21st-century American short story writers 21st-century American male writers Novelists from Massachusetts