Paul G. Tremblay

Novelist

Birthday June 30, 1971

Birth Sign Cancer

Birthplace Aurora, Colorado, U.S.

Age 52 years old

Nationality United States

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1971

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.

Tremblay was born in Aurora, Colorado, and raised in Massachusetts.

He had spinal fusion surgery to treat scoliosis before he went to college.

1993

He attended Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island, receiving his bachelor's degree in 1993.

1995

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.

2010

Tremblay's novel No Sleep till Wonderland was published by Henry Holt and Company in 2010.

2012

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.

2014

The novel was published in 2014 under the pseudonym P. T. Jones.

2015

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.

2016

Disappearance at Devil's Rock was published in 2016 and received the 2017 British Fantasy Award for best horror novel.

2018

The Cabin at the End of the World was published June 26, 2018.

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.

2019

It won the 2019 Bram Stoker Award for Novel and the Locus Award for Best Horror Novel.

2020

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.