#Paul Tremblay

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The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand will be published in hardcover and e-book on August 19, 2025 via Gallery Books.

Edited by Christopher Golden and Brian Keene, the anthology features 34 short stories based on The Stand. It includes an introduction by Stephen King, a foreword by Golden, and an afterword by Keene.

Contributors include Wayne Brady & Maurice Broaddus, Poppy Z. Brite, Somer Canon, C. Robert Cargill, Nat Cassidy, V. Castro, Richard Chizmar, S.A. Cosby, Tananarive Due & Steven Barnes, Meg Gardiner, Gabino Iglesias, Jonathan Janz, Alma Katsu, Caroline Kepnes, Michael Koryta, Sarah Langan, Joe R. Lansdale, Tim Lebbon, Josh Malerman, Ronald Malfi, Usman T. Malik, Premee Mohamed, Cynthia Pelayo, Hailey Piper, David J. Schow, Alex Segura, Bryan Smith, Paul Tremblay, Catherynne M. Valente, Bev Vincent, Catriona Ward, Chuck Wendig, Wrath James White, and Rio Youers.

Since its initial publication in 1978, The Stand has been considered Stephen King’s seminal masterpiece of apocalyptic fiction, with millions of copies sold and adapted twice for television. Although there are other extraordinary works exploring the unraveling of human society, none have been as influential as this iconic novel—generations of writers have been impacted by its dark yet ultimately hopeful vision of the end and new beginning of civilization, and its stunning array of characters. Now for the first time, Stephen King has fully authorized a return to the harrowing world of The Stand through this original short story anthology as presented by award-winning authors and editors Christopher Golden and Brian Keene. Bringing together some of today’s greatest and most visionary writers, The End of the World As We Know It features unforgettable, all-new stories set during and after (and some perhaps long after) the events of The Stand—brilliant, terrifying, and painfully human tales that will resonate with readers everywhere as an essential companion to the classic, bestselling novel.

Pre-order The End of the World As We Know It.

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Books read in 2024: Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay

“The mask is ugly and grotesque and familiar, and we cannot stop staring at it because all monsters are mirrors.”

[prettytothink-so]

sometimes i read a book or watch a movie and think "wow, i'm so glad i'm alive, the world is teeming with life and creativity and i'm part of a larger whole, i belong to a community of people who see the importance and value in art and its place in the world" and it's always something weird and fucked up that makes me feel that way. this time, it was horror movie by paul tremblay

[steddie-island]

Went onto Goodreads to mark down a quote from Horror Movie and this is the top review.

I’m cackling and kind of want to go look at this person’s other book reviews. 😂😂

[hesawifebeaterdanusethegun]

Something new to read came in the mail today! :D

[haveamagicalday]

My Top Ten Reads of 2024

10. Only if Your Lucky by Stacy Willingham- Margo meets the bigger than life Lucy in her freshman year of college, kicking off an unexpected friendship. The new year sees Margo living with Lucy and two other friends in an off campus house. The four become tightly knit until a shocking murder of a frat boy causes Lucy to disappear. This was a slow burn of a thriller that didn't reach the urgency of Willingham's previous two novels but was still thoroughly enjoyable. The mystery was almost put on the backburner while we focused on toxic friendships, both in the past and present. However, I never felt bored when reading and was taken aback by the big twists in the end.

9. Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay- In 1993 some young filmmakers attempted to make a movie simply titled Horror Movie. The film was never fully completed and only three of the scenes were released. The infamous scenes gained a cult following and now Hollywood is interested in a big budget reboot. Only one cast member is still alive and his involvement with the movie brings back some dangerous memories. I loved this book. It was told in alternating chapters between the present and the original making of the movie. We also get the script of the movie throughout and I honestly found myself more interested in the contents of the movie than anything else. My only complaint was that I wanted more.

8. Sleep Tight by J.H. Markert- Twenty years after his rampage, the deadly serial killer known as Father Silence is put to death. That same night, one of the police officers that originally arrested Father Silence is found murdered in his home by a copycat killer calling themselves the Outcast. When the Outcast kidnaps the daughter of Detective Tess, she must race against the clock to find her daughter, prevent the Outcast from killing again and confront secrets in her past that connect back to Father Silence. Twisty and creepy this thriller was a page turner.

7. Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison- Vesper left her deeply religious home at 18 and tried not to look back but an invitation to her cousin's wedding has Vesper returning to a place she vowed never to see again. This was probably the most fun I've had with one of Harrison's books. The surprise twist early on fully explaining what was going on with Vesper's cult-like family actually made me laugh out loud (in the best way). I almost wish she would turn this into a series following this character's misadventures as I think there's a lot of potential for some more fun ideas.

6. My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna van Veen- Roos was forced by her mother to perform seances to scam people for an income. The truth is that Roos really can speak to the dead, at least to one dead person; Ruth, her faithful companion since childhood. Luck turns when a wealthy young widow becomes interested in Roos and asks her to come live with her as a companion. Roos and Agnes make a surprising pair and grow quite intimate with one another until a shocking death tears things apart. Now as a suspect, a psychologist works with Roos to determine if she is fit to stand trial and listens as she spins her unreliable story of what she claims really happened that night. Creepy and gothic with a sad love story to boot

5. The Shadow in the Glass by J.J.A. Harwood- Housemaid Ella is visited by a fairy godmother who offers her the chance of seven wishes in exchange for her soul after the last wish is made. Thinking she can outsmart the fairy, Ella takes the deal but quickly realizes that with each wish comes a heavy price. Faust meets Cinderella in this gothic horror about being careful what you wish for. Inevitably you know what will happen but continue to read with dread.

4. Return to Midnight by Emma Dues- Margot is one of the only survivors of what has been dubbed the Midnight House Massacre. Now ten years later, Margot is a successful author and has decided to finally write about what happened that night. But returning to Midnight house brings up old memories and Margot isn't sure that the person they arrested all those years ago was actually the perpetrator. A bit predictable with the plot twists at the end but I still immensely enjoyed this.

3. A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher- Weirdly being marketed as a Goose Girl retelling this book has almost nothing to do with the fairytale but instead focuses on a vain sorceress and her teenage daughter who she treats like a puppet, using her magic to control Cordelia's movements for hours at a time. When the sorceress decides it is time to get married, Cordelia finds an unlikely alley in her mother's fiancé's spinster sister. Together the two work together to put a stop to her mother's evil doing. I loved everything about this.

2. The Prisoner's Throne by Holly Black- A satisfying conclusion to Stolen Heir. I hope to see more books set in Black's fairy world.

1.We Shall be Monsters by Alyssa Wees- Gemma lives with her mother Virginia in an antique shop that stands on the edge of a strange woods. Virginia forbids Gemma from entering the forest but Gemma is drawn to it. When Gemma witnesses her mother being taken by a monster, she must venture into the forbidden woods to save her mother and break an old curse. At its heart, We Shall Be Monsters is a book about the relationships between mothers and daughters with a dual timeline that follows both Gemma and Virginia as a teenager who is also intrigued by the forbidden woods. Beautifully written, this fantasy novel reads like an old fairytale with some twists and a twinge of horror along the way.

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Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay

I think we're in more control of what we remember and what we don't remember than we assume.

Paul Tremblay's Horror Movie is a story about an unseen film that's shrouded in mystery because of tragedy, and how the lone surviving cast member navigates its cult following 30-years later. It's an artistically executed, thematically effective exploration of the thin line that separates memory and myth; the social conditioning that separates man and monster.

I really like how Tremblay structured this story, compellingly deconstructing the elements that make up a horror story while tackling the themes throughout with perceptive empathy and a keen grasp of this genre's cultural significance. And his character work demonstrates a disquieting understanding of the dangerous practice of living inside the mind of a monster, making the splendidly f*cked up final moments all the more chilling.

"I'm afraid that I'm a figment of your imagination. That you created me."

8/10

-Timothy Patrick Boyer.

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

the problem with reading Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay is that, as an Australian, I have spent the whole time with the Skyhooks song "Horror Movie" stuck in my head 😂

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6 Horror Books I Love

Horror Movie - Paul Tremblay

Tremblay is one of my favorite authors and this is by far my favorite of his novels. It's official publish date was my birthday last year, and I read it 3 times that month alone. I love the mixed media aspect of it and the uneasiness that I get every time I read it.

Model Home - Rivers Solomon

This book left a major impact scar in my chest. I think that Solomon writes about trauma in a uniquely straight forward way even when it's obscured. Model Home felt too familiar in ways that distressed me from start to finish, but the catharsis was something I needed.

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter - Stephen Graham Jones

Another one of my favorite authors! I finished this book last week and it was so good that I felt at a loss on what to read next (everything else sounded dull in comparison). Jones re-made vampires into something terrifying. I couldn't stop reading. I also think that, for a revenge story, this book is strangely compassionate. SGJ is a masterful writer.

Annihilation - Jeff VanderMeer

This was the first Eco-horror book I ever read and it has stuck with me for years. VanderMeer is so wonderfully weird, and I think if you like strangeness in your science fiction, he's a great author to read.

Mister Magic - Kiersten White

As someone who has deep-rooted religious trauma, this book was a lot. I'd never been confronted with fiction so close to my own history before I read this. I'm grateful. It was horrifying and healing. I know a lot of folks didn't care for this one or find it scary, so it may not be objectively a great read. But I think if you grew up in an evangelical home, you may really vibe with this one too.

The Hollow Places - T. Kingfisher

My favorite T. Kingfisher horror! I loved The Magician's Nephew when I was a kid, and this is like a scarier successor to that, I think. There are portals, and body horror, and weirdly charming and annoying characters.

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Speaking of books that are lectures, it’s always a bit dicey to have horror history lectures in your horror book because like half your audience is going to be like ‘bro why are you explaining to me that The Haunting (1963) is based on The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson and that Blair Witch isn’t the first found footage film.’ Like it might be helpful for the other half who doesn’t know that but it ends up being like ‘why am I getting a horror 101 lecture can we get back to developing atmosphere/plot.’

Anyway hot take after book club where most people liked Head Full of Ghosts and thought it did the jumping timelines and film/show within the book thing better than Horror Movie, but I am vastly preferring the table read of the unreleased film in Horror Movie to the blog posts in Head Full of Ghosts (doing audio for both, which I think did affect the way the script was received, the audiobook listeners had a much more favourable view of the script vs text readers)

[readtilyoudie]

In our age of dwindling attention spans, one might think short fiction would be all the rage. Maybe it’s not that surprising. Reading a book of stories is harder and asks more from the reader than a novel does. Generally with a novel you have to acclimate to only one set of characters and circumstances. In a collection, you have to suffer through that acclimatizing process for anywhere from ten to fifteen stories and within a compressed amount of reading time, which can be mentally taxing if not exhausting. Am I wrong? I’m not judging anyone. I get it. With each new short story one has to learn about a new set of characters and settings and figure out what’s at stake. Also, it’s likely the author (subconsciously feeling unencumbered by the demands of the marketplace) dares to be a bit more obtuse and experimental than she would in a novel, and so the stories tend to be even less easily digestible. It is not an accident that in the Western world for well over a hundred years the novel has been the most popular form of written fiction. 

Growing Things: And Other Stories by Paul Tremblay

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They should start a club for women who can't remember the notoriously strange events of their childhood but were forced to recall them decades later as very cynical adults.

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The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay

Books read in 2024 that surprised me

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My three most anticipated reads right now!

From left to right:

Paperbacks from Hell by Grady Hendrix

Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay

On Writing: a Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King

[jkparkin]

Scare Up the Vote, set for Oct. 15 at 8 p.m. ET. More here.

[libraryspectre]

Paul Tremblay really seems to like presenting you with a real weirdo freak of a guy (gn). This is true of a lot of horror writers but it seems REALLY true of him