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" Ambiguity is our permanent state, isn't it? We don't like it being so. Most of us crave order and routine, and yet yawning before us is our future, as frightening as it is thrilling. "

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" Marshmallows are kind of weird. I'm not a huge fan. I mean, they're fun when they get molten and melty at the end of a stick, but I always burn my mouth because I'm not all that smart or patient. "

Paul G. Tremblay

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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. "

" A large part of the appeal of this novel when I was lucky enough to stumble across the story idea for 'A Head Full of Ghosts' was that I'd finally be writing a horror novel. In a lot of ways, the book is both my criticism of and love letter to horror. "

" 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. "

" When it comes to actually writing the book/story, I work on a computer. I wish I could write longhand, but I can't. "

" 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. "

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

" There's no objective reason anyone can point to that proves a horror story is innately inferior or that it's doomed to fail as a work of art because of it being horror. Anyone saying otherwise is being intellectually dishonest. "

" What keeps me up at night is our nation's continued and burgeoning lack of rationality in response to mass shootings. "

Paul G. Tremblay

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" I want folks to take horror seriously. "

" 'A Head Full of Ghosts' was my first full horror novel, and that felt like coming home as a writer. "

" I always wanted to write a book that would have people talking, theorizing, arguing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My first book deal was for two Mark Genevich novels. I hadn't planned on writing a second Genevich novel, but I was contracted to do so, and so there I was being introduced as a crime writer. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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.' "

" I'm certainly no hardcore backpacker, but I do enjoy being out in the woods for a few hours. "

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

" As an adult, I've learned to cope and pull the plug on the worst what-ifs before my mind takes me to a place from which I can't return. "

" If what needs to get done is going to get done, then I can't screw around with the luxury of writing rituals or waiting for pristine writing conditions to magically materialize. "

" So much of my work is about children and/or parenting; it's something I'm drawn to without being able to completely articulate why. "

" 'The Cabin at the End of the World' is my riff on the 'home invasion' subgenre of horror/suspense. Hopefully it's a big, loud, dark riff. "

" 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. "

" Chance, choice, and consequence are fundamental parts of existence and perfect fodder for a horror story - or any story, for that matter, that asks, 'How do you live through this? How does anyone live through this?' "

" Getting into graduate school was pure luck. "

" The closer a horror story gets to the truth of things, the more affective it is going to be. "

" 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. "