What Paul Tremblay has said about Victorian Psycho
3 quotes · 1 episode · Jun 26, 2026
Paul Tremblay, American horror novelist, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Cabin at the End of the World, has been quoted on Victorian Psycho 3 times in 1 episode of Morbid, most recently on June 26, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Tremblay argued that readers misremember Victorian Psycho as a story in which Winifred kills only bad people, when she kills indiscriminately.
“have, like, false memories of this book because they want to root for her and they assume, oh, no, she's only killing bad people”
Morbid: Morbid Book Club: Victorian Psycho By Virginia Feito (Jun 26, 2026) · Listen from 35:46
Tremblay said that on a second reading he noticed the green dress given to Winifred was likely poisonous and could be affecting her mind.
“And the green dress she gave her that was probably poison. I missed that on the first read somehow”
Morbid: Morbid Book Club: Victorian Psycho By Virginia Feito (Jun 26, 2026) · Listen from 39:43
Tremblay leaned toward a realistic reading of the ending in which events largely happened but are distorted by Winifred's narration.
“You know, most of the stuff happened, but it's being refracted through Winnie and go towards more realistic interpretation”
Morbid: Morbid Book Club: Victorian Psycho By Virginia Feito (Jun 26, 2026) · Listen from 52:11
Episodes
Morbid Book Club: Victorian Psycho By Virginia FeitoMorbid · Jun 26, 2026 · 1 h 25 min
Morbid hosts Ash Kelley and Alaina Urquhart talk with horror author Paul Tremblay about his career, AI, and Virginia Feito's novel Victorian Psycho.
Others on Victorian Psycho
- Ash Kelley · 1 quote
- Alaina Urquhart · 1 quote
Paul Tremblay on other topics
- Horror fiction · 3 quotes
- A Head Full of Ghosts · 2 quotes
- Ghost sightings and hauntings · 1 quote
- Widow's Bay · 1 quote
- The Cabin at the End of the World · 1 quote
- Jaws (1975 film) · 1 quote
- Artificial intelligence · 1 quote
- Authors' copyright lawsuits against OpenAI · 1 quote