Paul Tremblay

Tremblay was born in Aurora, Colorado, and raised in Massachusetts.^[2] He had spinal fusion surgery to treat scoliosis before he went to college.^[3] 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.^[4][5]

In summers between college, Tremblay worked at the Parker Brothers factory in Salem, Massachusetts, primarily in the warehouse and assembly lines.^[6] After graduation, he began teaching high school mathematics and coaching junior varsity basketball at Saint Sebastian's School.^[7][8]

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.^[9][10] Swallowing a Donkey's Eye was published by ChiZine Publications in 2012.^[11][12][13]

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.^[14][15]

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.^[16][17][18] In 2015, Focus Features optioned the novel.^[19] In 2024, Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala were announced to direct the film adapation.^[20] In 2026, Lionsgate Films acquired the distribution rights with production set to begin in March of that year.^[21]

Disappearance at Devil's Rock was published in 2016 and received the 2017 British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel.^[22][23]

The Cabin at the End of the World was published on June 26, 2018.^[24] It won the Locus Award for Best Horror Novel.^[25] FilmNation acquired the rights to The Cabin at the End of the World in April 2018, before its publication.^[26] The novel was adapted into the 2023 film Knock at the Cabin, directed by M. Night Shyamalan.^[27]

His collection Growing Things and Other Stories was published in 2019 by William Morrow and Company^[28] and won the 2019 Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection.^[29]

Survivor Song was published on July 7, 2020,^[30] and The Pallbearers Club was published in 2022.^[31] The Beast You Are, a collection of fifteen short stories, was published in July 2023.^[32] His dystopian horror novel Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep was released in June 2026.^[33]