Paul Tremblay

Meet your neighbor Nick-Nick and the rest of the strange, but all-too-recognizable suburban neighborhood, which includes a worrisome man who picks apart the asphalt, one chunk at a time. From Paul Tremblay's In the Mean Time, this tale is one of fifteen ""finely crafted"" (Locus Magazine) stories of fear and paranoia, stories of apocalypses both...

In this ChiZine Short Story Contest-winning tale, a blog documents society's slow, unexplained but inexorable end, or is it only a collection of pixel-sized paranoia? From Paul Tremblay's In the Mean Time, this tale is one of fifteen ""finely crafted"" (Locus Magazine) stories of fear and paranoia, stories of apocalypses both societal and person...

With a city in the midst of a fiery apocalypse, a young boy choose to help his brother burn down a billboard. From Paul Tremblay's In the Mean Time, this tale is one of fifteen ""finely crafted"" (Locus Magazine) stories of fear and paranoia, stories of apocalypses both societal and personal, and stories of longing and coping.ChiZine Publication...

In an America that has split into two separate countries (the Blue States and the Red States) an old Jewish woman attempts to help two young men find their way to a better world that may or may not exist. From Paul Tremblay's In the Mean Time, this tale is one of fifteen ""finely crafted"" (Locus Magazine) stories of fear and paranoia, stories o...

A widower gives spiders--including two secret eating spiders from Japan--the run of his home so that he'll feel protected from the dangers of the outside world. From Paul Tremblay's In the Mean Time, this tale is one of fifteen ""finely crafted"" (Locus Magazine) stories of fear and paranoia, stories of apocalypses both societal and personal, an...

With the world choking underneath preternaturally growing plants, two daughters await their father's return to their mountain hideout, but uncover a family secret instead. From Paul Tremblay's In the Mean Time, this tale is one of fifteen ""finely crafted"" (Locus Magazine) stories of fear and paranoia, stories of apocalypses both societal and p...

From the safety of his tower, a surgeon documents the transformative stages of a plague decimating his city until he recognizes one of the victims on the street below. From Paul Tremblay's In the Mean Time, this tale is one of fifteen ""finely crafted"" (Locus Magazine) stories of fear and paranoia, stories of apocalypses both societal and perso...

A pregnant woman descends into the clutches of the eating disorder pica while her relationship with her partner deteriorates. From Paul Tremblay's In the Mean Time, this tale is one of fifteen ""finely crafted"" (Locus Magazine) stories of fear and paranoia, stories of apocalypses both societal and personal, and stories of longing and coping.Chi...

A librarian details the mysterious connection between his missing mother and a plague of balloons that returns to a historical city every nineteen years. From Paul Tremblay's In the Mean Time, this tale is one of fifteen ""finely crafted"" (Locus Magazine) stories of fear and paranoia, stories of apocalypses both societal and personal, and stori...

A girl with a second head that changes into different historical and fictional identities tries to find her father while figuring out how to handle Mom and the book club. From Paul Tremblay's In the Mean Time, this tale is one of fifteen ""finely crafted"" (Locus Magazine) stories of fear and paranoia, stories of apocalypses both societal and pe...