Bird Box was recently named one of the “10 Perfect Horror Books” by Collider. The 2014 novel, which became a bestseller years after it was published, was written by Josh Malerman. Malerman is also a songwriter, director, producer, and guitarist.
Bird Box, which has a 4-star rating on Goodreads, is about an entity that causes people to commit violent acts if they take a single glimpse at it. “Five years after it began, a handful of scattered survivors remain, including Malorie and her two young children,” the official description states. “Living in an abandoned house near the river, she has dreamed of fleeing to a place where they might be safe. Now that the boy and girl are four, it’s time to go, but the journey ahead will be terrifying: twenty miles downriver in a rowboat—blindfolded—with nothing to rely on but her wits and the children’s trained ears. One wrong choice and they will die.”
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This post-apocalyptic horror novel was adapted into a 2018 film starring Sandra Bullock, which became a Netflix phenomenon. When asked what drew her to the character of Malorie in an interview with Fred Topel, Bullock explained, “As a mother, I know myself how fearful I am and what I would do for my children and what I feel myself doing for my children, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. To be how Malorie was was obvious to me. It made sense. Wouldn’t you do everything in your power to protect your child? This is a reluctant mother, and she was willing to go this far.”
Malerman released a sequel in 2020 called Malorie. It continues the story of Malorie, taking place a decade after the end of the first book. As the Wall Street Journal claimed, “Malorie is even more of a psychological thriller than Bird Box, and all the scarier for it.”
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Some other books that made Collider’s list of “10 Perfect Horror Books” include The Troop, The Turn of the Screw, The Hellbound Heart, The Shining, Dracula, and Frankenstein.
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