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The Pallbearers Club is a 2022 horror novel by American author Paul Tremblay. The novel is structured as a memoir written by a man recalling his teenage friendship with a woman who may have been a vampire, interspersed with annotations from the woman herself. Set in Massachusetts in the 1980s, the book explores themes of memory, unreliable narration, and friendship while leaving ambiguous whether supernatural elements are real or imagined.
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Who is Art Barbara in The Pallbearers Club?
Art is a seventeen-year-old high-school loner in the late 1980s who wears a back brace for scoliosis. He starts a club that supplies volunteer pallbearers for poorly attended funerals, then befriends a girl who photographs corpses with a Polaroid camera. [HarperCollins](https://www.harperacademic.com/book/9780063069916/the-pallbearers-club/)
Is Mercy really a vampire in The Pallbearers Club?
The novel deliberately avoids a simple confirmed answer. Art's friend's knowledge of New England folklore and the frightening events around her support a supernatural reading, while the memoir format keeps memory and fact uncertain. [HarperCollins](https://www.harperacademic.com/book/9780063069916/the-pallbearers-club/)
How is The Pallbearers Club structured?
The book presents itself as a memoir that Art writes decades after the events of his adolescence. His former friend gets the manuscript and makes cuts to it, creating the annotations and disputes that blur fiction, memory, and horror. [HarperCollins](https://www.harperacademic.com/book/9780063069916/the-pallbearers-club/)
When was The Pallbearers Club published, and how long is it?
Paul Tremblay's novel went on sale on July 5, 2022. The hardcover edition has 288 pages and a listed price of $27.99. [HarperCollins](https://www.harperacademic.com/book/9780063069916/the-pallbearers-club/)
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