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The band’s latest album, “Address Unknown,” will be released in 2023. In addition to being a novelist, Malerman also plays in a local band called the High Strung. And isn’t it always voice that separates one novel from another? It’s one reason I’m so enamored with the novel as a medium: There’s few works of art with as naked a voice as the novel.” He continued: “I hope all my books come from whatever spirit I have within me, just like the books of my peers come from theirs.

But still, so aren’t states of mind? And the entire novel could be looked at as a single panic attack, suffered by Kit Lamb, growing more serious, more grave from beginning to end,” “Not a figment of the imagination, no no. “Here our lumbering beast is, in a way, a state of mind,” said Malerman. Malerman spoke about how “Daphne” stands out from other horror novels. And once I realized I had her, my ‘anxiety as a monster,’ the story erupted out of me,” he recalled. The more Kit thinks about Daphne, the closer the monster gets. She, no doubt, represents our protagonist’s panic attack. “But one evening, with all this in mind, Daphne, the seven-foot denim-clad madwoman, practically walked into my office unbidden. It’s believed Daphne’s ghost still walks the earth and will appear to kill again. The night before the big game, one of her teammates tells a story about Daphne, a girl rumored to be a murderer who went to their school many years ago and died under mysterious circumstances. “Daphne” (Del Rey $28) occurs during the summer prior to basketball star Kit Lamb’s senior year of high school. That was a gift I couldn’t have known I’d been handed at the time,” said Malerman. “The first scary movie I saw was (1983’s) ‘Twilight Zone: The Movie.’ Changed my life… It showed me right away by nature of the very different stories within, it showed me the elasticity of the genre. Influenced by the works of Stephen King, Alfred Hitchcock, and Agatha Christie, Malerman’s 2014 debut novel “Bird Box” became a Netflix movie of the same name in 2018 with Oscar winner Sandra Bullock (“The Blind Side”), Oscar nominee John Malkovich (“In the Line of Fire”) and Golden Globe winner Sarah Paulson (“The People vs. “And that is the best feeling for a guy like me!” said Malerman, 48, an alumnus of West Bloomfield High School and Michigan State University, who lives in Ferndale with his fiancée Allison Laako. There were several scenes that even scared New York Times best-selling author Josh Malerman when he was writing his latest horror novel, “Daphne.”

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