Tremblay, Paul
Entry updated 24 July 2023. Tagged: Author.
(1971- ) US author mostly of horror and fantasy who began to publish work of genre interest with "The King Bee" (in The Dead Inn, anth 2001, edited by Shane Ryan Staley), which was assembled in In the Mean Time (coll 2010), some of the stories being sf (see Horror in SF; Fantastika). His PI Mark Genevich sequence, featuring a private eye with narcolepsy, is nonfantastic. Of sf interest is City Pier: Above and Below (coll of linked stories 2007 chap), each tale set in the eponymous City divided horizontally into a Dystopian Above region, and a surreal Below [for As Above, So Below see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below]. In this mirroring venue, Mad Scientists, Steampunk Airships, Telepaths and other iconic tropes gradually commingle in a vision of interlacing realities evocative of the work of Jorge Luis Borges, who may have been a model. In Survivor Song (2020), the perhaps unsurprising invasion of very Near Future America by a Zombie-creating Pandemic is enriched through the drama that dominates the tale: an infected pregnant woman's time-of-the-essence search for a vaccine, or a doctor to deliver her child before it is too late. [JC]
Paul Gaetan Tremblay
born Aurora, Colorado: 30 June 1971
works
series
PI Mark Genevich
- The Little Sleep (New York: Holt Paperbacks, 2009) [PI Mark Genevich: pb/]
- No Sleep Till Wonderland (New York: Holt Paperbacks, 2010) [PI Mark Genevich: pb/]
- The Little Sleep & No Sleep Till Wonderland (London: Titan Books, 2021) [omni of the above two: PI Mark Genevich: pb/]
individual titles
- Swallowing a Donkey's Eye (Toronto, Ontario: ChiZine, 2012) [hb/Erik Mohr]
- Floating Boy and the Girl Who Couldn't Fly (Toronto, Ontario: ChiZine, 2012) with Stephen Graham Jones, writing together as by P T Jones [pb/]
- A Head Full of Ghosts (New York: HarperCollins/William Morrow, 2015) [hb/Forest Woodward]
- Disappearance at Devil's Rock (New York: HarperCollins/William Morrow, 2016) [hb/]
- The Cabin at the End of the World (New York: HarperCollins/William Morrow, 2018) [hb/Mark Owen]
- The Cabin at the End of the World (New York: HarperCollins/William Morrow, 2019) [exp of the above as coll: with added postscript: pb/Mark Owen]
- Survivor Song (New York: HarperCollins/William Morrow, 2020) [hb/]
- The Pallbearers Club (New York: HarperCollins/William Morrow, 2022) [hb/]
collections and stories (selected)
- Compositions for the Young and Old (Canton, Ohio: House of Dominion, 2004) [coll: pb/David Ho]
- City Pier: Above and Below (Germantown, Maryland: Prime Books, 2007) [coll of linked stories: chap: pb/]
- The Harlequin & The Train: A Novella (New Paltz, New York: Necropolitan Press, 2009) [novella: short version in Compositions for the Young and Old above: pb/]
- In the Mean Time (Toronto, Ontario: ChiZine, 2010) [coll: all stories reissued 2015 as separate ebooks not listed below: hb/Erik Mohr]
- Growing Things and Other Stories (New York: HarperCollins/William Morrow, 2019) [coll: hb/Alan Dingman]
- The Beast You Are: Stories (New York: HarperCollins/William Morrow, 2023) [coll: hb/Grafissimo]
works as editor
- Bandersnatch (Germantown, Maryland: Prime Books, 2007) with Sean Wallace [anth: hb/Danny Malboeuf]
- Phantom (Germantown, Maryland: Prime Books, 2009) with Sean Wallace [anth: hb/Timothy Lantz]
- Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters (Germantown, Maryland: Prime Books, 2011) with John Langan [anth: pb/Alexey Stiop]
links
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- The Encyclopedia of Fantasy: As Above, So Below
- Picture Gallery
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