

Since Bird Box, Josh has published an impressive array of short stories, novellas, introductions, and-just released in May-his second novel, Black Mad Wheel (which received a starred review in Library Journal), about a 1950s rock band as they undertake a government assignment to identify a sound that can kill. Malerman had never been published before, because (talk about dream day jobs!) he’d been touring for years as frontman for the band the High Strung, who scored when their song “The Luck You Got” was chosen as the theme song for the Showtime series Shameless.

In 2014, a horror novel by a young writer named Josh Malerman was released by HarperCollins’ Ecco Press imprint to starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews both publications compared the book-about survivors in a post-apocalyptic America decimated by something that kills those who glimpse it-to the work of Stephen King.
