Paul Tremblay Horror Books Ranked
Paul Tremblay is an award-winning American horror fiction author
Paul Tremblay is an award-winning American horror fiction author. He writes novels, short fiction, and essays, and teaches mathematics at a high school in Massachusetts.
His horror stories tend more towards ambiguous supernatural horror, where you’re left wondering if it was real or not.
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Average Star Ratings Out Of 5
The books below are ranked as an average of scores given in customer reviews on Amazon, Goodreads, and LibraryThing.*
*The ratings in this article are as at 11 September 2022. Ratings will change over time as more people rate these books. This article will be updated on a regular basis to reflect the changing customer reviews.
| Title | Average | Amazon | Goodreads | LibraryThing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Head Full of Ghosts | 3.92 | 4.20 | 3.80 | 3.77 |
| Survivor Song | 3.84 | 4.10 | 3.67 | 3.76 |
| Disappearance at Devil’s Rock | 3.79 | 4.10 | 3.60 | 3.67 |
| Growing Things and Other Stories | 3.72 | 4.10 | 3.50 | 3.55 |
| The Cabin at the End of the World | 3.53 | 3.80 | 3.31 | 3.47 |
| The Pallbearers Club | 3.15 | 4.00 | 3.26 | 2.18 |
1. A Head Full of Ghosts
A Head Full of Ghosts is a supernatural ambiguous horror story.
The Barrett family struggles to deal with fourteen-year-old Marjorie’s onset of mental illness.
The father turns to a local Catholic priest for help and the priest convinces him that Marjorie is not ill, but that she needs an exorcism. With the family battling financial instability, along with the chaos and instability in their lives, they agree for the exorcism to be filmed as a reality television show.
The story is told fifteen years later by Merry, who was eight years old at the time. Merry reveals truths, secrets, and painful memories of what happened during that time.
Average: 3.92 | Amazon: 4.20 | Goodreads: 3.80 | LibraryThing: 3.77
2. Survivor Song
Survivor Song is a plague apocalypse horror story.
Massachusetts is overrun by a rabies-like virus.
Spread by saliva and with an incubation time of less than an hour, the bitten are driven to infect as many people as they can before they themselves die. The government’s emergency protocols aren’t working, hospitals are overwhelmed, and hysteria has gripped society.
Natalie is eight-months pregnant and is bitten trying to save her husband.
Natalie and her friend, paediatrician Rams Sherman, race against time to get to a hospital for a rabies vaccine.
Average: 3.84 | Amazon: 4.10 | Goodreads: 3.67 | LibraryThing: 3.76
3. Disappearance at Devil's Rock
Disappearance at Devil’s Rock is an existential horror story.
Thirteen-year-old Tommy vanishes one night in the woods of a local park.
He and two friends were supposedly hanging out at a landmark the local teens call Devil’s Rock. The police have no leads and Tommy’s friends may not be telling the truth about that night.
Tommy’s mother and sister are devastated and frustrated and, as the search grows more desperate, strange things begin to happen to them and other local townsfolk.
Average: 3.79 | Amazon: 4.10 | Goodreads: 3.60 | LibraryThing: 3.67
4. Growing Things and Other Stories
Growing Things and Other Stories is an anthology of nineteen horror short stories, including some that are linked to some Tremblay novels.
- A student is forced to watch a disturbing video that will haunt and torment her and her classmates’ lives.
- Four men rob a pawn shop at gunpoint only to vanish, one-by-one, as they speed away from the crime scene.
- A meth addict kidnaps her daughter from her estranged mother as their town is terrorized by a giant monster … or is it?
- An apocalyptic tale about plants spreading throughout the world is a story loosely shared between the sisters in A Head Full of Ghosts.
- A story told in the form of notes left by dog walkers deconstructs horror and publishing.
Average: 3.72 | Amazon: 4.10 | Goodreads: 3.50 | LibraryThing: 3.55
5. The Cabin at the End of the World
The Cabin at the End of the World is an apocalypse horror story.
Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin.
One afternoon, a stranger appears in the driveway as Wen is playing on her own outside. Leonard and Wen talk and play for a while, until Leonard says, “None of what’s going to happen is your fault”.
Three more strangers then arrive carrying suspicious but unidentifiable objects.
As Wen runs to warn her parents, Leonard calls out, “Your dads won’t want to let us in, Wen. But they have to. We need your help to save the world.”
Average: 3.53 | Amazon: 3.80 | Goodreads: 3.31 | LibraryThing: 3.47
6. The Pallbearers Club
The Pallbearers Club is an ambiguous supernatural horror story.
Art is a loner in high school who starts an extracurricular club that provides volunteer pallbearers for poorly attended funerals.
Mercy seems strange but cool and she joins his club. She seems over-obsessed with death, corpses, and New England folklore about digging up the dead.
Art begins to believe there’s something odd about Mercy and, decades later, writes this manuscript in an effort to make sense of the strange things that happened around her.
Average: 3.15 | Amazon: 4.00 | Goodreads: 3.26 | LibraryThing: 2.18
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First published: 28 July 2022 | Updated: 11 September 2022
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