Episode 1: Paul Tremblay on AI, horror writing, and his new 2026 novel

Welcome to the very first episode of Always Bring a Book. Craig sits down with award-winning author Paul Tremblay; the mind behind A Head Full of Ghosts, The Cabin at the End of the World, Horror Movie, and his middle-grade debut Another.

Fresh off announcing his upcoming 2026 novel Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep, Paul talks about blending tech dread with dark humor, how the book became his longest and most ambitious project yet, and why he’s still firmly anti-AI in creative spaces.

They also dig into:

• Paul’s long-running lawsuit against OpenAI and how his thinking on AI has intensified
• The wild premise behind Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep (nanobots, remote-controlled bodies, and a slacker gamer protagonist?!)
• What it’s really like co-writing a novel with Stephen Graham Jones
• His experience writing Another for younger readers
• Growing up around the old Parker Brothers factory in Salem (Ouija boards, haunted stories, and an unreleased Dracula video game!)

Intro + Outro music by Trevor Vaughan