Martha Marcy May Marlene’ is excellent. I adore how the film is both grounded in realism and, at the same time, it has an ethereal, nightmarish atmosphere. Paul G. Tremblay Read Quote
There are many talented and worthy writers engaging horror in new, imaginative, and yes, terrifying ways. Paul G. Tremblay Read Quote
Ambiguity and the horror of possibility play a part in so many of my favorite horror stories: Shirley Jackson’s ‘We Will Always Live in the Castle,’ Mark Danielewski’s ‘House of Leaves,’ Victor LaValle’s ‘Big Machine,’ Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper,’ Stewart O’Nan’s ‘The Speed Queen,’ and so many more. Paul G. Tremblay Read Quote
The response to ‘A Head Full of Ghosts’ has been amazing and thrilling. I’d be lying if I said I don’t feel a little extra pressure trying to follow it up. Paul G. Tremblay Read Quote
I’m harsh on myself. But let’s be honest: I’m not as harsh as the online one-star critic who says, ‘This book is boring and stupid and smells like poo.’ Paul G. Tremblay Read Quote
I do remember dancing in my living room when my short story ‘The Laughing Man Meets Little Cat’ won a Chizine fiction contest in 2002. Paul G. Tremblay Read Quote
Crime, horror, and satire each aim to reveal an ugly or uncomfortable truth: one that, after the reveal, will ensure we’ll never be the same. The big difference between those genres being the effect they create. Paul G. Tremblay Read Quote
I won’t call ‘Cabin’ an anti-home invasion story, because that’s not exactly true, but the home-invasion subgenre is one I generally don’t gravitate toward as a reader or film viewer. Paul G. Tremblay Read Quote
I think I got serious about writing in the late ’90s. The first stuff I wrote was terrible and got rejected, but I started getting more encouraging rejection letters. Paul G. Tremblay Read Quote
