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Announcement:
The shortlisted works across all 13 categories of the British Fantasy Awards have been announced! Find out who’s in the mix over on our blog. Winners announced at Fantasycon in October.
29 June 2026
7:00 pm BST
Multi-award-winning and bestselling author Paul Tremblay joins the British Fantasy Society for an in-depth discussion on his mastery of weird fantasy and horror and his upcoming book, Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep. Join us for this special event. Q&A after the interview.
Paul Tremblay (he/him): Paul Tremblay has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, Sheridan Le Fanu, and Massachusetts Book awards and is the New York Times bestselling author of Another, Horror Movie: A Novel, The Beast You Are, The Pallbearers Club, Survivor Song, Growing Things and Other Stories, Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, A Head Full of Ghosts, and the crime novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland. His novel The Cabin at the End of the World was adapted into the Universal Pictures film “Knock at the Cabin.” Two short stories, “The Last Conversation” and “In Bloom,” were Amazon Original shorts.
His essays and short fiction have appeared in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and numerous “year’s best” anthologies. He lives outside of Boston, Massachusetts with his family and has a master’s degree in Mathematics.
Paul’s latest book, Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep, releases on 2nd July 2026.
A genre-bending near-future tech nightmare that is as bitingly funny as it is horrifically believable, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Cabin at the End of the World.
Meet Julia Flang, a twenty-something former professional gamer, living with her retired uncle, and working two jobs she doesn’t like. Out of the blue, her estranged mother, a CFO for one of the world’s largest tech companies, offers her a temp job with a payday Julia can’t refuse. One sham interview later, she’s offered the job: to chaperone a man in a vegetative state from California to the East Coast. But he’s not dead dead: he has an AI mind implanted in his head… Meet a middle-aged man who wakes within a disorienting hellscape filled with monstrous grotesqueries. Worse than the fluid, morphing reality in which he’s trapped, he has no memory of who he is. He certainly doesn’t remember getting the rabbit tattoo on his arm. He only knows that he must find a certain person. Who? He can’t remember. Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep is a heady, terrifying genre-bender from one of the most groundbreaking voices in fiction today, exploring the ‘I’ in AI.
Find out more about Paul on his website. Or follow him on Instagram or Facebook. Pre-order your copy of Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep here.
Lauren McMenemy (she/her): Lauren McMenemy wears many hats: Former Editor-in-Chief at Trembling With Fear for horrortree.com, she is the British Fantasy Society’s Managing Editor for Online Content, and host and curator of the Writing the Occult virtual event series. A British Fantasy Award-nominated author, she writes gothic-influenced occult and folk horror stories. You’ll find her haunting south London, where she lives with her Doctor Who-obsessed husband, the ghost of their aged black house rabbit, and the entity that lives in the walls. Learn more about Lauren on her website. Or this website. She’s also a social media queen. Find her on Twitter, Instagram, Instagram (Society of Ink Slingers), Bluesky, Threads or Mastodon. Whatever your social media pleasure, Lauren has you covered.
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