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The Pallbearers Club: A Novel by [Paul Tremblay]

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“Paul Tremblay delivers another mind-bending horror novel . . . The Pallbearers Club is a welcome casket of chills to shoulder.” – Washington Post

“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

“[A] deliciously confusing thriller.” – Weekend Edition (NPR)

A cleverly voiced psychological thriller from the nationally bestselling author of The Cabin at the End of the World and Survivor Song.

What if the coolest girl you’ve ever met decided to be your friend?

Art Barbara was sonot cool. He was a seventeen-year-old high school loner in the late 1980s who listened to hair metal, had to wear a monstrous back-brace at night for his scoliosis, and started an extracurricular club for volunteer pallbearers at poorly attended funerals. But his new friendthought the Pallbearers Club was cool. And she brought along her Polaroid camera to take pictures of the corpses.

Okay, that part was a little weird.

So was her obsessive knowledge of a notorious bit of New England folklore that involved digging up the dead. And there were other strange things – terrifying things – that happened when she was around, usually at night. But she was his friend, so it was okay, right?

Decades later, Art tries to make sense of it all by writing The Pallbearers Club: A Memoir. But somehow this friend got her hands on the manuscript and, well, she has some issues with it. And now she’s making cuts.

Seamlessly blurring the lines between fiction and memory, the supernatural and the mundane, The Pallbearers Club is an immersive, suspenseful portrait of an unusual and disconcerting relationship.

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The Pallbearers Club is Tremblay at his most audacious best. It's such a sneaky mindblower!

-- "Sarah Langan, author of Good Neighbors" --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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The Pallbearers Club is Tremblay at his most audacious best. It's such a sneaky mindblower!

-- "Sarah Langan, author of Good Neighbors" --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0B6JQX6HM
Publisher ‏ : ‎ William Morrow (July 19, 2022)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 19, 2022
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 5506 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 292 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0063069911

Best Sellers Rank: #42,868 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #78 in Vampire Thrillers
- #120 in Vampire Suspense
- #953 in Psychological Thrillers (Kindle Store)

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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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K. Dorris

A vampire tale?

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 31, 2022

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“A book is a coffin because it holds a body, sometimes more than one, and we readers are there to witness, mourn, and celebrate.”
This book was a vampire story, or was it? It was a coming of age story, maybe? It was a buddy tale-ish? Gotta say, it was different and fun and thought provoking.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 7, 2022

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When I read A Head Full of Ghosts I was blown away. The best horror novel I'd read in years. (Okay, maybe I hadn't read all that many in recent years, but I loved it)

The Pallbearer's Club doesn't quite live up to it's excpectations, but pay no mind to that. Excpectations is a treacherous thing.

What this book definitely is: different, funny, punk rock and quarky. I especially liked Mercy's annotations.

Is it a vampire story? You decide. I recommend that you do😃

9 people found this helpful

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Nunya Nunyas

0 stars for the barcode sticker, genius

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 18, 2022

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The book itself gets 4 stars. The fact that Amazon thought it would be cute to put a sticker on the front cover gets zero stars; would not recommend.

Thanks so much, Amazon, for adhering a barcode so stubbornly that part of the cover ripped off! Way to be a leading 21st-century marketplace.

Was that sticker so important that you needed it front and center, or would you make better choices if it was your own book purchase?

I mean, the book has a barcode ALREADY PRINTED ON ITSELF. Smooth move.

7 people found this helpful

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JenniferRydell

Stunning, Is the Best Word For This

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 25, 2022

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Two(ish) narrators tell this odd tale, and the main narrator made me gasp and then cry with his last line.

This is a somewhat strange story, and not everyone will enjoy it, but I very much did. All the other reviewers have given away the supernatural element so I won't bother. I will tell you that I became best friends/enemies with Art and Mercy, felt lonely without the other, felt their pain and grief, but never really shared any of Art's fears. I don't know why.

That said, there were a few style choices that made this book hard to read at times. The single paragraphs that went on for pages, chief among them. I confess to having skipped past Art's band history because it was boring.

I will read this twice, though, so that I can go back and see all the details I may have missed, or just be in on the secret from the beginning.

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NbleSavage

Not horror per se, but horror adjacent and another great head scratcher from PT

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 12, 2022

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You go into a Paul Tremblay novel with the expectation that he'll challenge you to draw your own conclusion. Pallbearer's Club is no exception. The narrative voice(s) work together very well - I could easily 'hear' the exchanges taking place as they would between close friends who can speak candidly to each other - and as a result I was taken in by this novel as if I were a silent partner to their decades long discussion.

There are definitely a few moments of pure dread and the tension is near constant between the two main characters. That said, I'd come just shy of calling this novel 'horror' but rather see it as 'horror adjacent' given the nature (maybe) of the relationship between the protagonist and the antagonist.

If you've enjoyed PT's other works, you'll enjoy this one too.

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Good book. The strength was the vividness of the war scene. It was a strong book without a heavy courtroom presence, which I liked.

not great

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 26, 2022

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This book did not impress me. The cabin on the woods was a very good read. I was hoping the same vibe from this book. It wasn’t. Messy. My my expectations where off.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 10, 2022

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This is a very strange vampire story told from two perspectives. Although clunky at times and a little ponderous it is story I found enjoyable.

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Todd Rinde

Well Worth the Read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 13, 2022

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I enjoy Mr. Tremblay's writing. Once I caught the gist of BC, I experienced the love/hate/excitement/dread of a bygone era. Adolescence can be a challenging time. Passions can be amped to the nth degree. Finding someone who shares the same likes feels like heaven. Perhaps we can never let go of the past.
This book struck me as brilliant and absorbing.
Thank you!

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BudoJo

Very disappointing and worse, pretentious and self-indulgent

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 5, 2022

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I'll start by saying I'm a fan of Paul Tremblay's other books. They are compellingly written and thoughtful stories, leaning into a literary style of storytelling but without being obtuse and supercilious. The Pallbearers Club, sadly, isn't any of those things. On the positive, I'd say the first 10% and the last 10% are good, maybe even great. They are the reason I gave it two stars. The middle 80% is dreadful, long winded prose and eventless storytelling. A first draft written for the author, his sycophants and suckers. It wasn't helped by the tiny font. I have no eye sight problems but the font was squashed in. But putting that aside, it read like an attempt at career sucide or a manuscript the editor should have sent back with copious notes on readability. The author doesn't get around this by referring to it in the text via a second unreliable narrator. The 2nd unreliable narrator is cute but not actually very clever. The only reason I finished it was because of the gushing reviews online. I think it is a case of the Emperor's New Clothes. It's no different than a person with a large vocabulary giving the impression of intelligence. One does not mean the other. Maybe worst of all is that there was a good story in there, but it's telling was dreadful. If you like pretentious books that are obsessed with textuality and being "meta", as if that is a great philosophical insight, then this might be for you. Personally, I'd recommend any of Mr Tremblay's other books, but not this. Never this. Burn its heart, bury it in a led coffin, and don't attend the wake.

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A Hunter

Dull

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 27, 2022

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I've enjoyed Tremblay's novels up to this point. Really looked forward to this.

But, honestly, I found it dull and failed to reach the finish line. For me the book simply lacks atmosphere, it meanders along without delivering much in the way of scares, or dread or mystery. None of the characters really landed with me, so I couldn't feel any empathy or desire to reach the conclusion.

Of course this is all subjective and I expect others will devour it, so to speak.

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Leedslas

I wanted to love it but....

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 10, 2022

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I like Paul Tremblays books generally, and this one is interesting in the way its written but ultimately I found it very slow, and bogged down in trying to define an era. I can't really describe the book as a thriller or horror either. There are hints and clues all the way through together with the expected ( ie. Unoriginal) climax of an ending. Sadly I found the whole thing unengaging.

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MRS D S ADAIR

Self Indulgent!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 27, 2023

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The whole time I was reading this book I hated it - I only kept at it as I had to know if anything really happened but the end was a mind numbing anticlimax - don't bother!

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