Paul G. Tremblay is an American author

American literature

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 and editor

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 of contemporary horror

Horror fiction

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, dark fantasy

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, and science fiction

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. Tremblay received two Bram Stoker Award

Bram Stoker Award

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 nominations in 2007 and he is a juror for the Shirley Jackson Awards.

Biography

While born in Aurora, Colorado

Aurora, Colorado

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, Paul G. Tremblay was raised in Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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. He attended Providence College

Providence College

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 in Providence, Rhode Island

Providence, Rhode Island

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, receiving his bachelor's degree

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 in 1993. He obtained his master's degree

Master's degree

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 in mathematics from the University of Vermont

University of Vermont

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 in 1995. While attending college and university, Tremblay was employed during the summer at the Parker Brothers

Parker Brothers

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 factory in Salem, Massachusetts

Salem, Massachusetts

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, primarily in the warehouse and assembly lines. After graduation, Tremblay began teaching high school

High school

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 mathematics and coaching junior varsity basketball at a private school

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 outside Boston, Massachusetts. At current, he lives in Boston, Massachusetts with his wife, two children, and dog named Rascal and teaches AP

Advanced Placement Program

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 Calculus

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.

Books

• No Sleep till Wonderland (Henry Holt and Company
  Henry Holt and Company
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  , forthcoming)
• In the Mean Time (ChiZine Publications, 2010) ISBN 978-1-926851-06-8.
• The Harlequin & The Train (Necropolitan Press
  Necropolitan Press
  Necropolitan Press, founded in 1993 by editor and author Jeffrey Thomas, is an independent publisher in the genres of horror, science-fiction, dark fantasy, and "the Unclassifiable." Necropolitan Press ceased producing new releases in 2001....
  
  , June 2009)
• The Little Sleep (Henry Holt and Company, March 2009)
• City Pier: Above and Below (Prime Books
  Prime Books
  Edited by two-time Hugo-nominee and 2006 World Fantasy-winner Sean Wallace, Prime Books is an award-winning independent publishing house, specializing in a mix of literary/commercial anthologies, collections, novels, and two magazines: Fantasy Magazine and Lightspeed Magazine. Some of its...
  
  , February 2007)
• Compositions for the Young and Old (Prime Books, April 2004, revised ed. July 2005)

Short stories

• "The Two Headed Girl", Interzone, July 2008
• "The Blog at the End of the World", Chizine, October 2008
• "Figure 5" (co-written with M. Thomas), Weird Tales
  Weird Tales
  Weird Tales is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine first published in March 1923. It ceased its original run in September 1954, after 279 issues, but has since been revived. The magazine was set up in Chicago by J. C. Henneberger, an ex-journalist with a taste for the macabre....
  
  , December 2007
• "There's No Light Between Floors," Clarkesworld Magazine
  Clarkesworld Magazine
  Clarkesworld Magazine is an American online fantasy and science fiction magazine. The first issue was published October 1, 2006 and it has maintained a regular monthly schedule since, publishing fiction by authors such as Sarah Monette, Catherynne Valente, Elizabeth Bear, Caitlin R...
  
   issue 8, 2007
• "The Teacher", ChiZine, January 2007
• "Rhymes with Jew", Jigsaw Nation, 2006
• "Feeding the Machine" Phantom Magazine, May 2006
• "It's Against the Law to Feed the Ducks", Fantasy Magazine
  Fantasy Magazine
  Fantasy Magazine is a U.S.-based online fantasy and science fiction magazine. It was launched as a print edition at the 2005 World Fantasy Convention in Madison, Wisconsin. It continued in this format for six more issues, but in mid-October 2007, it moved online, with daily content, and spun off...
  
  , April 2006
• "Holes", Sybil's Garage, April 2006
• "Continent", Son and Foe, November 2005
• "She Wants to be Saved (City Pier IV)", Lenox Avenue, July 2005
• "The Marlborough Man Meets the End" LitHaven, July 2005
• "The Cuckoo in the Clock" (co-written with Brett Savory), deathlings.com, June 2005
• "Dole as Ribbit (City Pier II)", Lenox Avenue, May 2005
• "Meat's Story (City Pier I)", Lenox Avenue, March 2005
• "The Strange Case of Nicholas Thomas: An Excerpt from A History of the Longesian Library", Lenox Avenue, November 2004
• "All Sliding to One Side", Last Pentacle of the Sun, fall 2004
• "Role Models", Carnival/Circus, June 2004
• "Lies and Skin" (co-written with Steve Eller), Razor magazine, February 2004
• "The Dilky Never Landed", Punktown: Third Eye, March 2004
• "The Ballad of Blood-Man", deathlings.com, 2004
• "I Know…", Gothic.net, 2004
• "With More Than Eyes", Gothic.net, September 2003
• "Perfect", Vivisections, summer 2003
• "So Many Things Left Out", Book of Final Flesh, April 2003
• "Perception", Fortean Bureau, February 2003
• "The Harlequin and the Train", Of Flesh and Hunger, 2003
• "The Laughing Man Meets Little Cat", ChiZine, October 2002
• "A Monster on Your Parasol", Black October magazine, 2002
• "Cold", Gothic.net, 2002
• "When Darkness Falls", Whispers from the Shattered Forum, July 2002
• "Them Bones", Whispers from the Shattered Forum, July 2002
• "4'33", Gothic.net, May 2002
• "The Drift", Eternal Night, 2002
• "Of Email, Nuts, and Inspiration", Brainbox II: Son of Brainbox, December 2001
• "The Jar", Brainbox II: Son of Brainbox, December 2001
• "The Stairs", Electric Wine, October 2001
• "The Hole", Envelopes in Time, July 2001
• "Danny and the Demon", Envelopes in Time, July 2001
• "Hurt", The Midnighter's Club, June 2001
• "The Visit", Fables, June 2001
• "The Well", Fables, June 2001
• "The Dead Room", Twilight Showcase, March 2001
• "King Bee", The Dead Inn, March 2001
• "God of Roads", Mindkites, December 2000

External links

• Paul G. Tremblay's Official Web Site
• Are You Sure You Want to Read This???: Paul G. Tremblay's LiveJournal Blog
• Paul G. Tremblay interview at Punktalk
• Paul G. Tremblay essay at Largehearted Boy