Paul Tremblay, Author . Holt $14 (271p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8849-6
South Boston PI Mark Genevich struggles to lead a seminormal life despite his narcolepsy, whose symptoms include falling asleep mid-conversation and hallucinations, in this uninspired noir from Stoker-finalist Tremblay (City Pier
). When Jennifer...
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Paul Tremblay, Author . Holt $14 (269p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8850-2
While somewhat derivative of Hitchcock, Tremblay’s second novel featuring South Boston PI Mark Genevich improves enough on the first, The Little Sleep
(2009), to suggest that the unusual hero—a narcoleptic sleuth subject to...
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Paul Tremblay, ChiZine (Diamond, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (216p) ISBN 9781926851068
Tremblay (No Sleep Till Wonderland) collects 15 world-ending whimpers that probe disintegrating, tormented personalities, both individual and societal. Many of the stories are seen through the troubled eyes of children and adolescents. A girl's...
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Paul Tremblay. ChiZine, $16.95 trade paper (275p) ISBN 978-1-92685-169-3
Tremblay (The Little Sleep) falters with this broad near-future political farce. Employee #42-9-33LB-A, who has never heard a real farm animal in his life, has left the City, which deports its homeless, for six years on the Farm, a highly regimented
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Paul Tremblay. Morrow, $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-236326-8
Intense emotions of fear and alienation carve direct paths to the supernatural in this tightly plotted and atmospheric novel. Young Tommy’s disappearance in Borderland State Park, Mass., near haunted Devil’s Rock, throws his mother, Elizabeth...
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Paul Tremblay. Morrow, $26.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-267910-9
The apocalypse begins with a home invasion in this tripwire-taut horror thriller. Eric and Andrew are vacationing with their seven-year-old daughter, Wen, at remote Gaudet Lake in New Hampshire when their cabin is invaded by a quartet of weapons-wiel
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P.T. Jones. ChiZine/ChiTeen (Diamond, dist.), $12.99 trade paper (250p) ISBN 978-1-77148-173-1
Writing as P.T. Jones, authors Stephen Graham Jones (Flushboy) and Paul Tremblay (Swallowing a Donkey’s Eye) deliver an unusual tale that straddles the border between magic realism and weird science. Fourteen-year-old Mary’s quiet life is disrupted...
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Paul Tremblay. Morrow, $27.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-267916-1
A highly contagious rabies-like virus that turns its victims into homicidal maniacs drives this standout thriller from Stoker Award winner Tremblay (The Cabin at the End of the World). The state of Massachusetts is under quarantine, hospitals are...
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Paul Tremblay. Morrow, $16.99 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-299577-3
South Boston PI Mark Genevich, the wisecracking, narcoleptic narrator of this enticingly offbeat if lumbering series opener from Tremblay (Survivor Song), is prone to hallucinations. After falling asleep while meeting Jennifer Times, a new client...
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Paul Tremblay. Morrow, $27.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-306991-6
“I am not Art Barbara,” declares the narrator of this ambitious, metafictional pseudo-vampire thriller set in 2007 from Tremblay (Survivor Song), but he adds he’ll be calling himself that throughout the memoir that follows. In 1988, Art began the...
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Paul Tremblay. Morrow, $30 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-306996-1
These 15 invigorating horror shorts from Tremblay (The Pallbearer’s Club) showcase the author’s imagination and versatility. Two are radically different ghost stories: in “Ice Cold Lemonade 25¢ Haunted House Tour: 1 Per Person,” the narrator...
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Paul Tremblay. Morrow, $30 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-307001-1
Tremblay (The Beast You Are) raises the bar for the cursed film trope with a novel that cleverly breaks the fourth wall between imaginary horrors and their real-world repercussions. The unnamed narrator is the sole surviving crew member of the...
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