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"In The Mean Time is a formidable collection, as disquieting as it is beautiful."
-Kevin Brockmeier, author of The Brief History of the Dead
"In Mean Time, end of the world scenarios brush up against the traumas of more personal apocalypses. The resulting stories are as stressful and quietly traumatic as they are fluidly and lucidly written.
-Brian Evenson, author of Last Days and Fugue State
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"Paul Tremblay somehow manages to channel Franz Kafka, write like Raymond Chandler, and whip up a completely original, utterly whack-a-doodle reinvention of the detective novel. This book rocks."
—Mark Haskell Smith, author of Salty and Moist
Mark Genevich, narcoleptic detective, is caught between friends and a police investigation in this offbeat and compulsively readable mystery.
Mark Genevich is stuck in a rut: his narcolepsy isn’t improving, his private-detective business is barely scraping by, and his landlord mother is forcing him to attend group therapy sessions. Desperate for companionship, Mark goes on a two-day bender with a new acquaintance, Gus, who is slick and charismatic—and someone Mark knows very little about. When Gus asks Mark to protect a friend who is being stalked, Mark inexplicably finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation and soon becomes the target of the police, a sue-happy lawyer, and a violent local bouncer. Will Mark learn to trust himself in time to solve the crime—and in time to escape with his life?
Written with the same “witty voice that doesn’t let go”* that has won Paul Tremblay so many fans, No Sleep Till Wonderland features a memorable detective whose only hope for reconciling with his difficult past is to keep moving—asleep or awake—toward an uncertain future.
*Library Journal, starred review for The Little Sleep
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The Little Sleep
Mark Genevich is a South Boston P.I. with a little problem: he’s narcoleptic, and he suffers from the most severe symptoms, including hypnogogic hallucinations. These waking dreams wreak havoc for a guy who depends on real-life clues to make his living.
Clients haven’t exactly been beating down the door when Mark meets Jennifer Times—daughter of the powerful local D.A. and a contestant on American Star—who walks into his office with an outlandish story about a man who stole her fingers. He awakes from his latest hallucination alone, but on his desk is a manila envelope containing risqué photos of Jennifer. Are the pictures real, and if so, is Mark hunting a blackmailer, or worse?
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Phantom
Ghosts, disaffected wives, deserted towns, obsessive journalists and children who never existed haunt the pages of this stunning, elegant and frightful anthology of “literary horror” assembled by Stoker nominee Tremblay and World Fantasy Award–winning Wallace (Bandersnatch)… deliciously creepy book of horrors that prove all the more terrifying for their everyday nature.” -Publisher's Weekly
"Tremblay and Wallace have put together an oustanding anthology that truly examines the dark corners of the human experience and asks, 'What's next?' Haunting, provocative and immensely enjoyable." -Brian Keene
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City Pier: Above and Below
ABOVE: City is sprawling, technocratic, corrupt, and built hundreds of feet above a bay, resting upon the giant wooden shoulders of Pier.
BELOW: Pier is a seemingly endless maze of stripped sequoia trees with trunks as thick as buildings, branches molded into a complex lattice of support beams and struts.
ABOVE and BELOW: The people. Weapons dealers and hired heavies with major Daddy-issues; a Pier-deported homeless man and a pistol packing priest trying to survive with each other and their terrible secrets; a librarian haunted by City's violent history, his family, and by Balloons; a flawed and shattered woman who wants to escape City no matter the cost. Their lives are a part of each other. Their lives are a part of City Pier.
Compositions For The Young And Old
A jar that holds your deepest secrets and fears.
A fireman confronts his past while trying to save a group of children who have fallen through thin ice.
A preacher's daughter goes to fantastic and desperate lengths to write a book like Mark Twain.
A man who cures people's pain and sadness through laughter finds his greatest challenge in a little boy.
Bandersnatch
From the Introduction:
Lewis Carroll named a curious creature the Bandersnatch in his dreamlike Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark poems. He didn’t describe many physical details of the phantasmagorical creature. He did, however, give the following warning: “shun the frumious Bandersnatch.”
Praise for the works of Paul G. Tremblay:
City Pier
"Paul Tremblay's City Pier milieu is hardboiled future noir, funky and fun, like a weird telepod accident blending Mickey Spillane and Philip K. Dick." - Jeffrey Thomas
Compositions For The Young And Old
"This is accomplished, sensitive work by a writer who not only means to scare you and maybe even warn you, but to move you." - Jack Ketchum: The Girl Next Door and Red.
"His eye is both compassionate and merciless..." - Poppy Z. Brite
Bandersnatch
"It may or may not be frumious, but this original anthology from Tremblay (City Pier: Above & Below) and Wallace (Jabberwocky 2) positively revels in the "strange, dark, and unpredictable..." For those who dig that funky groove, this anthology more than delivers what it promises." - Publisher's Weekly