"[A] chilling debut . . . Malerman . . keeps us tinglingly on edge with his cool merciless
storytelling. . . . 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) Written with the narrative tension of The Road and the exquisite terror of classic
Stephen King Bird Box is a propulsive edge-of-your-seat horror thriller set in an
apocalyptic near-future where an unimaginable incomprehensible and invisible foe lurks in the
shadows--now available as a Harper Perennial Olive Edition 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. Five years after it began a handful of scattered
survivors remain including Malorie and her two young children. Living in an abandoned house
near the river she has dreamed of fleeing to a place where they might be safe. 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 ears. One wrong choice and they will die. And
something is following them. But is it man animal or monster? Engulfed in darkness
surrounded by sounds both familiar and frightening Malorie embarks on a harrowing odyssey--a
trip that takes her into an unseen world and back into the past to the companions who once
saved her. Malerman's breathtaking debut novel is a horrific and gripping snapshot of a world
unraveled that will have you racing to the final page.
