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A haunting collection of short fiction from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club, A Head Full of Ghosts, and The Cabin at the End of the World.
Paul Tremblay has won widespread acclaim for illuminating the dark horrors of the mind in novels and stories that push the boundaries of storytelling itself. The fifteen pieces in this brilliant collection, The Beast You Are, are all monsters of a kind, ready to loudly (and lovingly) smash through your head and into your heart.
In “The Dead Thing,” a middle-schooler struggles to deal with the aftermath of her parents’ substance addictions and split. One day, her little brother claims he found a shoebox with “the dead thing” inside. He won’t show it to her and he won’t let the box out of his sight. In “The Last Conversation,” a person wakes in a sterile, white room and begins to receive instructions via intercom from a woman named Anne. When they are finally allowed to leave the room to complete a task, what they find is as shocking as it is heartbreaking.
The title novella, “The Beast You Are,” is a mini epic in which the destinies and secrets of a village, a dog, and a cat are intertwined with a giant monster that returns to wreak havoc every thirty years.
A masterpiece of literary horror and psychological suspense, The Beast You Are is a fearlessly imagined collection from one of the most electrifying and innovative writers working today.
- Print length368 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherWilliam Morrow
- Publication dateJuly 11, 2023
- Dimensions6 x 1.17 x 9 inches
- ISBN-100063069962
- ISBN-13978-0063069961
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"More than a dozen horror stories—weird, self-referential, expertly told. [The] quirkily magisterial title entry delivers a grim vision of hubris and collective apathy . . . It is all, frankly, riveting. . . . What seems to matter, in all these stories, aren’t the specifics of a grisly end but the emotions they conjure, the way they tinge our own reality after we turn the page.” — New York Times
“Invigorating . . . Whether he’s writing a subtly disarming tale in the manner of Shirley Jackson or a grisly monster story, Tremblay draws well-developed characters whose recognizable humanity makes it easy for readers to accept the weird events happening around them.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“A wonderful collection of short fiction. These 15 gems, polished to perfection, range from straight-up horror to speculative fiction to psychological terror . . . . This one’s a must-have.” — Booklist (starred review)
"A brilliant, creepy and wildly entertaining collection. By turns surreal, playful, and frightening, with a wondrously nightmarish Orwellian fable to boot, Paul Tremblay is a master storyteller who vividly conjures the monstrous in all its shivery forms." — Mona Awad, author of Bunny and Rouge
“Inventive, entertaining, and guaranteed to trouble your sleep. I savored this collection—and I’m still thinking about the show-stopping tour-de-force novella in verse, ‘The Beast You Are.’ I’ve never read anything like it, but now I want more, more, more.” — Kelly Link, bestselling author of White Cat, Black Dog: Stories
“Uncertainty is Tremblay’s stock-in-trade. Over the last decade, he has grown from hot new thing to horror icon without compromising on his uniquely inexplicable nightmares.” — Esquire
"Tremblay’s greatest gift as a writer may be to both unnerve his reader and break their heart at the same time." — Litreactor
“Paul Tremblay delivers another mind-bending horror novel . . . The Pallbearers Club is a welcome casket of chills to shoulder.” — Washington Post
"Yet another not-to-miss release by the popular and critically acclaimed Tremblay, showcasing a discomfort that is reminiscent of Shirley Jackson but still new and thought-provoking." — Library Journal (starred review)
“A jaunty, character-driven exploration of a complicated friendship, [The Pallbearers Club] is more emotional than [Tremblay’s] previous novels, and more innovative. . . . [T]his delightfully morbid and surprisingly emotional horror novel demonstrates Tremblay’s literary range.” — New York Times
“[A] deliciously confusing thriller.” — Weekend Edition (NPR) on The Pallbearers Club
“Melancholy and funny as well as dark and complex, this novel will be the dark hit of the summer. Unique in terms of style and format, The Pallbearers Club occupies a peculiar place between a thriller, a horror novel, and a narrative that will make you question everything.” — Boston Globe
About the Author
Paul Tremblay has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, and Massachusetts Book awards and is the author of The Beast You Are, The Pallbearers Club, Survivor Song, Growing Things and Other Stories, Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, A Head Full of Ghosts, and the crime novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland. His novel The Cabin at the End of the World was adapted into the Universal Pictures film Knock at the Cabin. He lives outside Boston with his family.
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- Publisher : William Morrow (July 11, 2023)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 368 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0063069962
- ISBN-13 : 978-0063069961
- Item Weight : 1.1 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 1.17 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #84,711 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #696 in Occult Fiction
- #2,518 in Psychological Thrillers (Books)
- #4,654 in Literary Fiction (Books)
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Paul Tremblay is the author of the Bram Stoker Award and Locus Award winning THE CABIN AT THE END OF THE WORLD, winner of the British Fantasy Award DISAPPEARANCE AT DEVIL'S ROCK, and Bram Stoker Award/Massachusetts Book Award winning A HEAD FULL OF GHOSTS. A HEAD FULL OF GHOSTS is in development with Focus Features. He's also the author of the novels The Little Sleep, No Sleep till Wonderland, Swallowing a Donkey's Eye, and Floating Boy and the Girl Who Couldn't Fly (co-written with Stephen Graham Jones).
His newest book is the short story collection GROWING THINGS AND OTHER STORIES.
His essays and short fiction have appeared in the Los Angeles Times and numerous "year's best" anthologies. He is the co-editor of four anthologies including Creatures: Thirty Years of Monster Stories (with John Langan). Paul is on the board of directors for the Shirley Jackson Awards. He lives outside of Boston, Massachusetts, has a master's degree in Mathematics, and has no uvula. You can find him online at www.paultremblay.net. twitter: @paulgtremblay
He is represented by Stephen Barbara, InkWell Management.
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I won't talk about all the stories, but I'll give a spoiler-free review for my top three.
In "Ice Cold Lemonade 25 cents Haunted House Tour: 1 Per Person", Tremblay inserts himself into the story, exploring the confines of memory, identity, mortality, and existential horror as two young girls offer our main character a tour of their haunted house (instead of lemonade). And maybe something else?
In "I Know You're There," Tremblay puts the mechanics of grief under the microscope. He plumbs the depths, looking at how it follows us and morphs as we share the pain with others through repetition.
In the title story, "The Beast You Are," a free-verse novella, the poetic format and word choices say so much with so little. It's a dense epic spanning many years, chronicling the lives of several anthropomorphic animals (think Watership Downs) within a city. It covers politics, religion, friendship, family, and the meaning of heroism -- to name a few things. It's weird and will likely put many people off, but it was perfect for me. I love Tremblay. He's not afraid to write weird stuff, even when many people find it unfavorable, because those who love the odd stuff will TRULY love it!
So, overall, I enjoyed every story in this book. Some were stronger than others, very different from each other, and quite experimental. You can tell that they came from various points in Tremblay's life as he experimented with his voice and writing style.
A recommendation for Tremblay fans out there, but if you don't like his writing (and I know there are people out there who don't because his style and voice are so divisive and hit-or-miss for some), this probably isn't going to change your mind.
Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2023
I won't talk about all the stories, but I'll give a spoiler-free review for my top three.
In "Ice Cold Lemonade 25 cents Haunted House Tour: 1 Per Person", Tremblay inserts himself into the story, exploring the confines of memory, identity, mortality, and existential horror as two young girls offer our main character a tour of their haunted house (instead of lemonade). And maybe something else?
In "I Know You're There," Tremblay puts the mechanics of grief under the microscope. He plumbs the depths, looking at how it follows us and morphs as we share the pain with others through repetition.
In the title story, "The Beast You Are," a free-verse novella, the poetic format and word choices say so much with so little. It's a dense epic spanning many years, chronicling the lives of several anthropomorphic animals (think Watership Downs) within a city. It covers politics, religion, friendship, family, and the meaning of heroism -- to name a few things. It's weird and will likely put many people off, but it was perfect for me. I love Tremblay. He's not afraid to write weird stuff, even when many people find it unfavorable, because those who love the odd stuff will TRULY love it!
So, overall, I enjoyed every story in this book. Some were stronger than others, very different from each other, and quite experimental. You can tell that they came from various points in Tremblay's life as he experimented with his voice and writing style.
A recommendation for Tremblay fans out there, but if you don't like his writing (and I know there are people out there who don't because his style and voice are so divisive and hit-or-miss for some), this probably isn't going to change your mind.
Standouts include ‘The Postal Zone: The Possession Edition,’ in which Karen from the author’s novel A HEAD FULL OF GHOSTS answers readers’ questions related to ‘the Possession’ mini series. Fans of FANGORIA magazine should eat this one up. ‘The Blog at the End of the World,’ which was originally published in 2008, is twice as eerie now as it must’ve been then. It deals with a woman posting to her blog as everyone around her succumbs to a mysterious pandemic. Quite prophetic!
‘The Last Conversation’ is easily my favorite of the lot. It plays out like a super creepy episode of The Twilight Zone, and features a finale that’s as spooky as it is heartbreaking. ‘The Large Man’ brings vermin-horror to the next level, and I couldn’t help but love ‘The Party’ despite it being incredibly similar to one of my fave recent horror films, 2015’s ‘The Invitation.’
A few stories fall into the realm of bizarro/fantasy (‘House of Windows’, ‘Mean Time’) and the title novella, which takes up the second half of the book, is written in free verse, and just didn’t work for me. I guess you can label it a dark fairy tale, but something of this length, written so differently from the stories that proceed it, may have worked better as a separate book. Your mileage may vary.
I enjoyed more than half the stories, and found the ones I didn’t care for still very well written. This collection is worth your time, and will be of interest to horror fans who like seeing the genre stretched in many directions.









