Paul Tremblay: The Horror Author Who Scared Stephen King

Paul Tremblay is the New York Times bestselling author of A Head Full of Ghosts, The Cabin at the End of the World, Disappearance at Devil's Rock, and Horror Movie. In 2023, M. Night Shyamalan adapted Cabin... into the film Knock at the Cabin starring Dave Bautista & Rupert Grint. Tremblay's work has won the Bram Stoker, Locus, and British Fantasy Awards and earned praise from Stephen King himself:"A Head Full of Ghosts scared the living hell out of me, and I'm pretty hard to scare." -Stephen KingIn this wide-ranging conversation, we dive into:•The blurred line between schizophrenia and possession (and why it might be scarier to never know the difference.)•Ambiguity vs. twist endings and what really happened when M. Night Shyamalan adapted The Cabin at the End of the World.•The Thin Kid's brutal transformation in Horror Movie, how victims can become monsters, and what makes us keep watching.•Why "Perfect" art might kill creativity and why embracing imperfection could be the last human defense against AI.•The seven-hour deposition that nearly broke him. Iinside Paul's fight against ChatGPT and AI companies training on authors work without permission.