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Paul G. Tremblay

Profession : Author

Birth : June 30, 1971

I want folks to take horror seriously.

Paul G. Tremblay

Ambiguity is a big part of this post-truth world we're living in.

Paul G. Tremblay

After my debut didn't go very well with Holt, I needed to be in a healthier head space. I was happy to emerge from there. You will always have those negative thoughts as a writer, but you can't let them take over. If you let them take over, those are the real page killers.

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Independent horror movies have really stepped up the game, and hopefully mainstream Hollywood will follow suit.

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Pop country definitely frightens me, how popular it is.

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I have to admit to being a music snob. I think, in a parallel universe, I pretty easily could have been Jack Black's character from 'High Fidelity,' working in a record store and snidely commenting on everyone's purchases.

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Whenever you bring reality TV into the mix, it's only a matter of time before, whatever fiction you come up with, it'll become real.

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I was a good boy in high school , and I read for English class, and I vaguely remember reading, as a kid, 'Choose Your Own Adventure' stuff, but I didn't really read for pleasure.

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I was definitely a child of the '80s. Cable TV was new. I watched a ton of movies and a ton of TV. HBO would show the same movies over and over again, so I'd watch the same movies over and over again.

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In the early 2000s, I started selling some short stories to horror markets. I joined the Horror Writers Association.

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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.

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Math was always my best subject growing up.

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Getting into graduate school was pure luck.

Paul G. Tremblay

How children attempt to deal with everyday comedies and tragedies, and mortality, is universal and ultimately such a large part of what it means to be human.

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While being a parent has been the most fulfilling experience of my life, it comes with a price. Besides the onslaught of worries and fears that can be paralyzing, more personally there is a struggle with identity, or the fear of loss or usurpsion of identity, if that makes sense.

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Horror is often about how we live in the liminal, whether we want to or not.

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When you trust your subconscious enough to put something in a story and then figure out why it really needed to be there later, when that works out, aye, that's the stuff.

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There are many talented and worthy writers engaging horror in new, imaginative, and yes, terrifying ways.

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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.

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I became a reader - never mind a writer - because of Stephen King.

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