Bird Box : A Novel

• Fiction / Horror

“A book that demands to be read in a single sitting, and through the cracks between one’s fingers. There has never been a horror story quite like this. Josh Malerman truly delivers.”—Hugh Howey, New York Times bestselling author of Wool

“This completely compelling novel contains a thousand subtle touches but no mere flourishes—it is so well, so efficiently, so directly written I read it with real admiration. Josh Malerman does the job like a fast-talking, wised-up angel.”—Peter Straub

“[A] chilling debut . . . Malerman . . keeps us tinglingly on edge with his cool, merciless storytelling [and] douses his tale in poetic gloom. . . . An unsettling thriller, this earns comparisons to Hitchcock’s The Birds, as well as the finer efforts of Stephen King and cult sci-fi fantasist Jonathan Carroll.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
 

Something is out there . . .

Something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse and a person is driven to deadly violence. No one knows what it is or where it came from.

Malorie and her two young children have managed to stay alive. But now that the boy and girl are four, it is time to go, to make their way to safety where she believes other survivors may be.

But the journey ahead will be terrifying: twenty miles downriver in a rowboat—blindfolded—with nothing to rely on but her wits and the children's trained senses .Engulfed in darkness, surrounded by sounds both familiar and frightening, Malorie embarks on a harrowing odyssey that will bring back memories of the harrowing past.

One wrong choice and she and the children will die because something is following them. But is it human, animal, or monster?