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Every book Paul Tremblay recommended on podcasts
Paul Tremblay’s most recommended books
- Books of Blood Volume One by Clive Barker
- Come Closer by Sara Gran
- North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud
- Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez
- She Said Destroy by Nadia Bulkin
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
- The Nest by Kenneth Oppel
- The Skull by Jon Klassen
- The Visible Filth by Nathan Ballingrud
- Where are You Going, where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates
Books recommended by Paul Tremblay
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Books of Blood Volume One
Recommended“Uh, again, I'm going to split it for for two. If I could, I would give them one of Clive Barker's books of blood. It would be the one It would be It would be the one with a short story, but it's whichever one has a story in the hills, the cities.”
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Come Closer
Recommended“I'm so I'll recommend a short one because I think this is one of the scariest books that I've ever read is a Sarah grand's come closer um which was recently reissued and it is a possession story but so unique in how it's presented”
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North American Lake Monsters
Recommended“Uh the other author is Nathan Balenrude. He has a short story collection called North American Lake Monsters, which is just amazing. It was a briefly run, it became a briefly run show on Hulu, but the the collection is much better.”
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Our Share of Night
Recommended“And also, I I already mentioned this book, but I want to mention it again because I do have a tattoo of the cover on my arm. Mariana Enriquez is Our Share of Night. Again, it's another book, you know, that employs employs the best of of what literature can to offer”
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She Said Destroy
Recommended“The first I'm going to give you is Nadia Bulan. She is has so far been primarily a short story writer. She has two collections. One called she uh she said Said destroy and she writes just amazingly beautiful, challenging and disturbing.”
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The Haunting of Hill House
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson is a celebrated classic horror novel about a haunted mansion and psychological isolation.
Recommended“So, anyway, um I'm going to recommend uh The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson one because it I mean it is sort of the ex of the 20th century sort of haunted house story. So, I think at the start of the book, most people won't be frightened.”
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The Nest
Recommended“Yeah. So, for for teen readers, uh there's a wonderful novel uh called uh The Nest by Kenneth Opel. You know, the conceit is that it's from the the point of view of of essentially like a 12-year-old boy and they have a newborn who's, you know, struggling and the parents are sort of struggling with it, too.”
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The Skull
Recommended“But, you know, specific to younger readers for younger young kids, like I would recommend John Clawson's The Skull, uh, which almost has like zero text. Yes. But it's one to fun.”
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The Visible Filth
Recommended“Also, his novella, The Visible Filth, uh, which is now in the collection Wounds, is one of the scarier things that I've read. Um, yeah, and so, you know, Nathan's just a wonderful writer again”
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Where are You Going, where Have You Been?
Discussed“But anyway, in that class, we read Joyce Carol's Where Have Are You Going? Where Have You Been? Uh, and I'll never forget reading that and thinking, "Oh, I didn't know people wrote things like this."”
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Wounds
Discussed“Also, his novella, The Visible Filth, uh, which is now in the collection Wounds, is one of the scarier things that I've read. Um, yeah, and so, you know, Nathan's just a wonderful writer again”
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Books Paul Tremblay wrote
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| What to Read This Halloween, According to Two Best-Selling Writers | The Book Review | 2026-10-23 | 11 |
Other mentions (5: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing The Hobbit
“So I mean but I guess the first I was definitely drawn towards Edgar Alen Po's work. Uh I have to admit to having written a bunch of paper you know high school papers probably on the same Ed Garland Po story or poem. Uh but also like you know the Hobbit.”
Passing The Tell-Tale Heart
“Pitt and Pendulum. The Telltale Heart. The Telltale Heart. Yeah. For sure. And his poems even though like uh you know Annabelle Lee and and Lenor and stuff like that.”
Passing The Pit and the Pendulum
“Pitt and Pendulum. The Telltale Heart. The Telltale Heart. Yeah. For sure. And his poems even though like uh you know Annabelle Lee and and Lenor and stuff like that.”
Passing Rosemary's Baby
“Uh but I've read Sarah Langan's Trife, and I think it's just a work of genius. Um she sort of out Ira Leven's Ira Leven uh in her book of Rosemary's Baby in the Steepford Wives, right?”
Passing The Stepford Wives
“Uh but I've read Sarah Langan's Trife, and I think it's just a work of genius. Um she sort of out Ira Leven's Ira Leven uh in her book of Rosemary's Baby in the Steepford Wives, right?”