The Netflix adaption of Bird Box, which hit the streaming service in December 2018, reportedly had 26 million viewers in the first week of release. Smash cut to 2018: Malerman is an established voice in modern horror, and Bird Box is now a feature film on Netflix. Needless to say, editors and agents were very impressed by what they read. A friend from high school, Dave Simmer, asked Malerman's permission to share his work to some contacts in the publishing industry, so Malerman sent over a collection of short stories. Yet Malerman wasn't actively seeking to have his work published at the time. Many of Malerman's first drafts were written on the road, while en route to the next gig. The group, which is still active today, played approximately 250 shows a year. Before readers knew him as the author of Bird Box, Malerman was touring the country as the singer/songwriter of the Detroit rock band The High Strung.

Yet the author was always crafting stories. To many, Malerman hit the horror scene seemingly out of nowhere. Fans are anxious to see how the horror author expands upon the tense world he created in his debut novel. The new novel takes place twelve years after the events of Bird Box, with blindfolds still serving as the only form of protection against the monstrous entities that devastated civilization. And this July, Malerman is set to release his Bird Box sequel: Malorie. Since 2014, Malerman has released multiple full-length books, novellas, and short stories, rivaling the prolific publishing pace of authors like Stephen King. For those still alive in this world, just one thing was certain: if you saw whatever was out there, you were doomed. The apocalyptic narrative beckoned readers into a world overrun by all-consuming creatures. In 2014, Josh Malerman burst onto the horror scene with Bird Box.

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