Their single “The Luck You Got” became the theme song for the HBO series Shameless starring William H. He’s a rock star too, as the singer/songwriter for the band The High Strung. Their debut film We Need to Do Something came out in 2021 - it’s based on a horror novella by Max Booth III, who also holds screenwriting credits on the film.īut wait! With Malerman, there’s always more. When he’s not juggling deadlines, he runs Spin a Black Yarn Productions with co-founder Ryan Lewis. He’s got another book slated to drop next year ( Spin a Black Yarn), and he’s currently rewriting an unpublished novel of his ( Incidents Around the House) while simultaneously filming a documentary about the process. His latest novel, Daphne, is a slasher story about a merciless killer who stalks a high school basketball team. Conversely, his prose is smooth and lyrical, often manifesting in a surreal, dreamlike quality for which he’s known. Sentences barrel toward you like freight trains, then stop on a dime, only to start again on a different track before finally chugging back your way in a gnarled railway map of information and ideas. Mixing a nostalgic coming-of-age story and an instantly iconic female villain with an innovative new vision of classic horror, this is an unforgettable thriller as only Josh Malerman could imagine it.Malereman’s passion for writing is obvious during our chat - he speaks with incredible energy as he bounces from one thought to the next.

Or else the summer of her lifetime will become the last summer of her life. Now it's a race against time as Kit searches for the truth behind the legend and learns to face her own fears. They also say that Daphne is still out there, obsessed with revenge, and will appear anytime someone thinks about her to kill again.Īfter Kit hears the story, her teammates vanish, one by one, and Kit begins to suspect that the stories about Daphne are real.and to fear that her own mind is conjuring the killer.

And some say that Daphne is a murderer herself. Some say she was murdered, others that she died by her own hand. The last summer before her life begins.īut the night before the big game, one of Kit's players tells a ghost story about Daphne, a girl who went to their school many years ago and died under mysterious circumstances. The last summer with her high school basketball team, and with Dana, her best friend. It's the last summer for Kit Lamb: the last summer before college. A brutal, enigmatic woman stalks a girls high school basketball team in a reimagining of the slasher genre by the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box.

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