Since the publication of A Head Full of Ghosts, Tremblay has written several other novels-close to one a year-and each one has been hailed as a new horror classic. His work is profoundly human, but not at all afraid to turn the screws, creating believable and lived-in characters whose lives and worlds fragment in tragic and painful ways. Related: Brian Evenson: 8 Tales of Psychological Terror by the Modern Horror Authorīut those of us who were lucky enough to be familiar with Tremblay and his work before A Head Full of Ghosts knew that it was just a matter of time. Not to mention that Stephen King said that A Head Full of Ghosts “scared the living hell” out of him. The novel won a Bram Stoker Award and was optioned for film by Robert Downey Jr.’s production company. When A Head Full of Ghosts came out in 2015, Tremblay “rightfully rocketed to fame as one of the best horror authors alive today,” as GQ put it-and, if you’re a horror writer and they’re talking about you in GQ, you’re probably doing something right. Short stories like “We Will Never Live in the Castle,” “Headstones in Your Pocket,” “The Harlequin and the Train,” “It’s Against the Law to Feed the Ducks,” “Swim Wants to Know If It’s As Bad As Swim Thinks,” and “There’s No Light Between Floors” helped to cement Tremblay’s reputation as a purveyor of chills, while his early noir novels starring narcoleptic P.I. His name was often mentioned in the same breath as folks like Laird Barron, John Langan, and Nathan Ballingrud as an author turning out new work that both honored the conventions of the form and turned it on its head in fascinating new ways. Even before the publication of his breakout novel, A Head Full of Ghosts, Paul Tremblay was considered a voice to watch in the horror genre.

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