ADVANCE PRAISE FOR SURVIVOR SONG
“In Survivor Song, Tremblay keeps the focus narrow and intimate: two women, in the space of a few hours, just trying to get across town. The result is heartfelt and terrifying, in a narrative that moves like a bullet train.”
—Nathan Ballingrud, author of Wounds
“This compulsive tale of infestation and gestation is not just a story of zombie devastation: it is a song to medical ingenuity and to female friendship.”
—Naomi Booth, author of Sealed
“Survivor Song is a breathlessly compelling read, powerfully frightening and very moving—a nightmare that rings all too terribly true. Paul Tremblay’s strengths grow with every book he writes, and his unflinching imagination enriches our field.”
—Ramsey Campbell, author of The Wise Friend
“I love the way Paul Tremblay’s books take seemingly familiar tropes and transform them into something fresh and surprising. Survivor Song may be one of his best—beautifully detailed, viscerally frightening, and deep with emotional resonance.”
—Dan Chaon, New York Times bestselling author of Ill Will
“Intensely gripping, shocking, and raw, Survivor Song is a visceral ride through a couple of hours of a deadly disease outbreak. Tremblay pulls no punches, but you wouldn’t want him to—his characters are real people, and it’s the brutal honesty that helps this terrifying song soar.”
—Tim Lebbon, New York Times bestselling author of Eden
“Packed full of emotion and suspense, Survivor Song is so gripping it may as well have been glued to my hands. Paul Tremblay is a master of modern horror.”
—Alison Littlewood, author of Mistletoe
“Brutality spreads in this novel as swiftly as the wild epidemic Tremblay has invented. A daring, terrifying work packed with horror, but also with larger questions about what meaningful survival might be.”
—Idra Novey, author of Those Who Knew
“Nerve-shredding. Paul Tremblay reinvents a classic horror trope for the modern world.”
—Priya Sharma, author of Ormeshadow
“Paul Tremblay’s Survivor Song is a pacy and poignant examination of disaster and grief. It is a mournful, lyrical, and ultimately hopeful lullaby for the living and the dead.”
—Angela Slatter, author of Restoration
“In Survivor Song, Paul Tremblay offers an unsettling journey across New England as two women, one a doctor, the other her pregnant best friend, try to outrace a rabies-like virus. It’s both an achingly lovely exploration of female friendship and a terrifying race against time. I was fighting tears and gasping out loud and couldn’t put it down.”
—Damien Angelica Walters, author of The Dead Girls Club
OUTSTANDING ACCLAIM FOR PAUL TREMBLAY ON GROWING THINGS AND OTHER STORIES
“Can’t praise Paul Tremblay’s GROWING THINGS highly enough. 19 creepy classics that will turn your favorite easy chair into an uneasy chair. One of the best collections of the 21st century.”
—Stephen King
“[Growing Things] brilliantly takes ordinary situations—an author reading, an AP history class, a family vacation—and seamlessly sprinkles in a sense of unease that quickly builds to a sense of pure horror. . . . These are stories that live in the increasing popular space between literary fiction and horror, where speculative terrors and very real universal truths collide.”
—Booklist (starred review)
“In these 19 stories, Tremblay doesn’t just hold a mirror up to reality, but live-streams it, projecting the whole spectrum of our modern anxieties so vividly it feels as if we’re watching in real time . . . . You can’t help feeling that he is a writer whose reach will continue to grow and grow and grow.”
—New York Times Book Review
“Tremblay’s unsettling prose, filled with poetic metaphors, sets an ominous tone, and readers will be sucked in from page one.”
—Library Journal
“It is a terrible thing to read a Paul Tremblay story. . . Terrible because you know, going in, that it’s probably going to mess you up. That his stories and his words have this way of getting under your skin. Of crawling inside you like bugs and just . . . living there. They become indistinguishable from memory. . . It’s terrible to read these stories, but you do it anyway. . . They’re fun because they’re dangerous. Because, word by word and title by title, I can feel the damage accruing. The scars.”
—NPR
“These frighteningly imaginative slices of horror are often far more chilling than their relatively mundane inspirations. . . . . From high fantasy to monsters to (literally) Hellboy, [Growing Things has] something for everyone who digs things that go bump in the night.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Paul Tremblay has mastered creepy, interstitial spaces with his own brand of supernatural-adjacent horror. This collection proves again that in any form, at any length, Tremblay is a must-read.”
—Chuck Wendig, New York Times bestselling author of Wanderers and Invasive
“Those hoping for the perfect balance of terror and psychological insight that makes for the most frightening reading should flock to Growing Things.”
—Los Angeles Times
“On display is Tremblay’s gift for inventive storytelling techniques, most notably his bold use of metafictional narrative conceits such as invented emails, blog entries, articles, and other detritus of the digital world. A great introduction to Tremblay’s oeuvre.”
—Toronto Star
“Taken as a whole, the book confirms Tremblay’s atmospheric mastery, his ability to capture a growing sense of Not Right, the moment when dream goes nightmare.”
—Boston Globe
“A skilled purveyor of the uncanny who always seeks meaning amidst the fear, Paul Tremblay is one of the key writers who have made modern horror exciting again.”
—Adam Nevill, author of The Ritual
OUTSTANDING ACCLAIM FOR PAUL TREMBLAY ON THE CABIN AT THE END OF THE WORLD
“A tremendous book – thought provoking and terrifying, with tension that winds up like a chain . . . Tremblay’s personal best. It’s that good.”
—Stephen King
“The apocalypse begins with a home invasion in this tripwire-taut horror thriller. . . .[Tremblay’s] profoundly unsettling novel invites readers to ask themselves whether, when faced with the unbelievable, they would do the unthinkable to prevent it.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Tremblay once again demonstrates his talent for terrifying readers. Offering a terrible situation with no good outcome, this is the author at his best. Highly recommended for Tremblay’s fans and those who relish end-of-the-world scenarios.”
—Library Journal (starred review)
“Paul Tremblay loads emotion and tension into every paragraph on every page of The Cabin at the End of the World. It’s not just that you don’t want to put the book down. It’s that rare feeling when the book won’t let go of you. Tremblay’s Cabin is a dream come true, a heartfelt, emotionally charged journey into our worst nightmares.”
—Caroline Kepnes, Author of You and Providence
“Read Paul Tremblay's new novel, The Cabin at the End of the World, and you might not sleep for a week. Longer. It will shape your nightmares for months – that's pretty much guaranteed.”
—NPR
“Gripping, horrifying, and mesmerizing.”
—GQ
“A tour-de-force of psychological and religious horror.”
—BN.com
“A blinding tale of survival and sacrifice.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Tremblay has a real winner here.”
—Tor.com
“The Cabin at the End of the World is a thriller that grapples with the timely and the timeless. I tore through it in record time. I just couldn’t wait to see where Tremblay was going to take me next.”
—Victor LaValle, author of The Changeling
“The Cabin at the End of the World is a clinic in suspense, a story that opens with high-wire tension and never lets up from there. The blend of human horror and human heart is superb. Paul Tremblay is rapidly becoming one of my favorite suspense writers.”
—Michael Koryta, New York Times bestselling author of How It Happened
OUTSTANDING ACCLAIM FOR PAUL TREMBLAY ON DISAPPEARANCE AT DEVIL’S ROCK
“Intense emotions of fear and alienation carve direct paths to the supernatural in this tightly plotted and atmospheric novel . . . Tremblay uses concise prose and smooth storytelling to evoke raw emotion in this tale of love, loss, and terror. Sympathetic characters and heartbreaking struggles replace genre stereotypes and tropes. The menacing atmosphere captures small-town isolation and hopelessness. This stunning and tantalizing work of suggestive horror is sure to please admirers of Stephen King and Peter Straub.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review)
“This tense, quick-moving story, part mystery and part folktale with a dash of police procedural, moves between points of view that offer tantalizing clues and moments of discomfort. The result is a satisfying piece of fiction that shifts genres underneath the reader.”
—BOOKLIST (starred review)
“You don’t have to be a parent to feel the paralyzing fear that Paul Tremblay evokes from the very first page of Disappearance at Devil’s Rock. As Tremblay unravels his plot with a dexterous and knowing hand, you will feel fear—you are in the hands of a master armed with the tools to scare you silly. But you might be surprised at how much compassion and love Tremblay bundles along with those scares, which is the hallmark of a true writer.”
—NICK CUTTER, author of The Troop and The Acolyte
“A deliciously grim study of the shadowy borderlines between the Gothic and the suburban, between the fantastical and the dreadful, between the mystifying world of childhood and the cataclysmic world of adulthood. From the first page to the last, you are reminded that the most sinister peril is the one lurking just outside your window—or just behind your eyes.”
—JOSHUA GAYLORD, author of When We Were Animals
“Once again Paul Tremblay gives us one of the best books of the year. Fueled by breathless tension and beautiful melancholy, Disappearance at Devil’s Rock reminds us that we make our own demons, and that ghosts are only one of the things that can haunt us. Bravo!”
—CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN, author of Snowblindand Dead Ringers
“Tremblay wields terror and mystery like instruments of delicious torture. This guy knows where to stick the knife to make it hurt.”
—CHUCK WENDIG, author of Zer0esand Blackbirds
“A brave and desperate woman faces the devil every parent fears most—a child lost (or taken)—in a heart-rending and utterly compelling tale of the sinister. Paul Tremblay writes exquisite, empathic horror of the highest quality.”
—JOE HILL, author of The Firemanand NOS4A2
“A poignant study of modern families and the crimes of absence. Insidious. A sleep-robbing mystery that keeps digging long after you’ve finished the last page, long into the night.”
—SARAH LANGAN, author of The Missingand Audrey’s Door