On Tuesday, September 20 at 7:30- 9:00 pm, author and musician Josh Malerman will direct a very special book launch for his new release Daphne. This is a free event, but seating is limited to the first 190 people. The book launch is in a high-school gymnasium. Doors open at 7:00 pm. Daphne: when basketball meets theater. At University High School in Ferndale, located at 2521 Bermuda Ferndale, MI 48220. Malerman’s book launches are legendary. Be there for the Daphne experience! Call us at 248-968-1190 to reserve a copy.
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
“Malerman refers to this novel not as a love letter to anxiety but as a correspondence. It shows. The wrathful specter is summoned by thoughts about her, however inadvertent. We’re left on the edges of our seats all the while.Terrific novel.” —Horror DNA
“Malerman is one of the most unique, imaginative, and creative writers of our time. He’s one of the best we have. To call his work “horror” would be correct. But amidst the horror—and there’s plenty—it has so much heart and love that it brought tears to my eyes many times. Few books have made me cry. This is one.”
—Ben Eads Fiction
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.
Josh Malerman is an American author of novels and short stories. Before publishing his debut novel Bird Box with ECCO/HarperCollins, he wrote fourteen novels, never having shopped one of them.
Being the singer/songwriter of the Detroit rock band The High Strung, Malerman toured the country for six years, as the band played an average of 250 shows a year, and Malerman wrote many of the rough drafts for these novels in the passenger seat between cities on tour. He says this about those days: “I never saw the books with dollar signs in my eyes. It was no hobby, that’s for sure, it was the real thing and always has been, but I was happy, then, simply writing, and while I blindly assumed they’d be published one day, I had no idea how something like that occurred.”
Read more at: JoshMalerman.com