Horror has a new name: Daphne. A brutal enigmatic woman stalks a high school basketball team
in a reimagining of the slasher genre by the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box.A
superb serial killer novel and a great coming-of-age story.”—Gabino Iglesias author of The
Devil Takes You Home ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Paste It’s the last summer for Kit
Lamb: The last summer before college. The last summer with her high school basketball team and
with Dana her best friend. The last summer before her life begins. But the night before the
big game one of the players tells a ghost story about Daphne a girl who went to their school
many years ago and died under mysterious circumstances. Some say she was murdered others that
she died by her own hand. And some say that Daphne is a murderer herself. They also say that
Daphne is still out there obsessed with revenge and will appear to kill again anytime someone
thinks about her. After 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. Now it’s a race against time as Kit searches for the truth behind the
legend and learns to face her own fears—before the summer of her lifetime becomes the last
summer of her life. Mixing a nostalgic coming-of-age story and an instantly iconic female
villain with an innovative new vision of classic horror Daphne is an unforgettable thriller as
only Josh Malerman could imagine it.
