Outside the place where the man wakes up, the world as we know it has ended. There's a woman there to help him get back to normal, but normal doesn't exist anymore. "The Last Conversation" follows a man who wakes up in the dark in a room inside a strange place. Unexpectedly engaging and with the kind of ending that makes it feel more like the first chapter in a novel than a short story, this one shows just how much Tremblay can accomplish with a relatively simple premise. "House of Windows" is a bizarre tale about a mysterious building that pops up out of nowhere and then grows, causing chaos in the city. A fun story with multiple voices in which Tremblay tackles everything from online behavior to the way his work has been called ambiguous, this is an incredibly self-aware metanarrative that makes it clear that the Tremblay Mythos definitely exist.
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"The Postal Zone: The Possession Edition" uses letters in the popular horror magazine Fangoria to revisit the world of Tremblay's A Head Full of Ghosts, a 2015 novel that chronicles the recording of a reality show in which a young woman was thought to be possessed. It's at once sad and thrilling, surreal and with a creepy atmosphere that makes everything feel plausible. "I Know You're There" is a cerebral ghost story that follows a man's struggle to navigate grief after the death of his partner. There are no throwaway stories in The Beast You Are, but offering a synopsis of each of them is impossible here, so here are some of the standouts: For those who are new to his work, the stories - a wildly entertaining mix of literary horror, psychological suspense, science fiction, and even a short epic poem about anthropomorphic animals living in a world that's threatened by a monster every three decades - will be more than enough to make them immediate fans. There are many inside jokes, echoes of earlier narratives, and tips of the hat that fans of Tremblay's previous work will have a lot of fun discovering. The Beast You Are makes a strong case for this.
I reviewed Growing Things when it came out, and back then I spoke about the need to start talking about the Tremblay Mythos. The Beast You Are, his latest short story collection, contains 15 tales, and only a handful of them could be called traditional - and even those have unique elements that make them special.
Author Paul Tremblay has long been obsessed with exploring new ways to deliver horror narratives.įrom the dueling authorial voices and handwritten marginalia of The Pallbearers Club, his most recent novel, to the diversity of voices, techniques, and approaches used in Growing Things, his previous collection, Tremblay cares a lot not only about the story but also about the way it's delivered.
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